past Quotes

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.