“I’m all in favor of recycling everything we can, but it’s strange to see your past walking around with a new identity.”

“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.”

“It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.”

“I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.”

“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”