"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”

“When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.”

“The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.”

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

“Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.”

“The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.”

“My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.”

“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”