“What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.”

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

“We observe things in the present and then, okay, we're assuming that that's always happened in the past, and we're going to figure out how this happened. You see? There is a difference between what you observed and what happened in the past.”

“All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.”

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

“Everyone occasionally is haunted by the past and should consider; no amount of remorse will erase the past and no amount of apprehension will alter the future.”

“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”

“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”