But the past is long, and the future is short.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

This play for them represents the future and not the past. What we see in them and the work that they have done to put this play on is just indicative of what their future?s going to be.

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.