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There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.