Ariel Dorfman Quote

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (ed. 2012)