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When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.