Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

People who think my books are autobiographical which they're not credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do however have a powerful imagination.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory or language or the imagination or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.