We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.