“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience.”

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment”

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ”