“Shared memory is evil.”

“Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.”

“the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.”

“I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.”

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

“And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.”

“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”

“There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.”

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”