“The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.”
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
“There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.”
“Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.”
“The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.”
“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”