“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

“You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.”

“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”

“Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.”