“The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.”

“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness.”

“The present doesn’t change the past. Is the fact that the past happened enough to make the present good? Is the past real? Was it real anymore?”

“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”

“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”

“Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age”