“Lilianna: Ask me again later.Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball.Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have a better read on the relationship in the present tense then.Tate: You'll have a better read on the present in the future. Yeah, I think that's called History class.”

“Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.”

“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”

“Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the run from my own history, and catching my breath in the present. Escapist. But the merciless present pushes us back again toward our history. The mind keeps talking.”

“I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay.”

“Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”