I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I think [it's necessary to accept] things that are just true about yourself: These are my faults, these are the things I'm good at, this is where I came from, this is where I didn't come from. I think happy people are the ones who have made peace with those truths and acknowledged them, and learned to use them and live with them.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.