“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”
“If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.”
“Your character belongs to you; your reputation belongs to other people, who have their own interests at heart, and they use it to control you, not to depict you.”
“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”
“You don’t own your life – it’s on loan.”
“If you want to bend your mind, don’t use a crowbar.”