“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.”

“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”

“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”

“In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”