As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.