Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

We live in a capitalist economy, and I have no particular objection to honorable self-interest. We cannot hope to make the needed, drastic improvement in prima…

Included in this 'almost nothing,' as a kind of geological afterthought of the last few million years, is the first development of self-conscious intelligence …

Biological evolution is a system of constant divergence without subsequent joining of branches. Lineages, once distinct, are separate forever. In human history…

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries…