“The eyes that saw too much because they did not close enough.”

“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.”

“Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.”

“Memories are like that. They live between synapses and between the people who hold them. Memories, even epic ones, are perishable from their very formation even in people who don't soak their brains in mood-altering chemicals. There is only so much space on any one person's hard drive, and old memories are prone to replacement by newer ones.”

“As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up?”

“Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.”

“...that explains everything and excuses nothing.”