One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, "the present," disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!

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

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.