“We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, youll end up losing.”

“Stop trying to be a magician. The past wont come back. It likes its safety in memory.”

“I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. Its a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.”

“If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, its because the intensity of such caring doesnt exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective ...”

“I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.”

“I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.”

“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.”