“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”

“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.”

“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“How do we overcome our grief, pain, and our fears of our memory of abuse that traps us in time?... The way to do it is to give it up; do not identify with it. Ask yourself: “Am I this memory?” Obviously you are not. While you identify with your memory and pain, your grief, with the abuse that is trapping you.”

“Memory is the fear, and I play most of my repertoire from memory.”

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

“Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

“Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.”