Fuck the past. This was the present.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

If you hold onto the past you'll only make the present go fast.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.