“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.”

“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.”

“The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.”

“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown not to care a damn about that ever increasing collection of past selves- those dear, dead gentlemen who one after the other have tenanted the temple of this flesh and handed on the torch of my life and personal identity before creeping away silently and modestly to rest.”