“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.”

“None of this is by accident, and we have to figure out what it all means. She paused. We have to. It's the same old argument I used to have with Mkele: the present or the future. Sometimes you have to put the present through hell to get the future you want.”

“You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.”

“Nora, I just don't want you to become so obsessed with the present that you can't see the future.”

“The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.”

“Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?”