You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

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.

People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files looks much like another.

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave.