“This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.”

“No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.”

“Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away.You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”

“But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.”

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”