“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”

“If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.”

“All items listed above belong in the worldIn which all things are continuous,And are parts of the original dream whichI am now trying to discover the logic of. ThisIs the process whereby pain of the past in its pastnessMay be converted into the future tenseOf joy.I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974)”

“History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.”

“The past is always a rebuke to the present.”

“I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric... ”

“In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.”