“You have no future when the past rules you.”

“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”

“I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.”

“It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.”

“There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.”

“Its not until youre older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”