"I can do nothing to change the past, but I can do a great deal to change the future."

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

"I am not a thinker. I am merely a man who has been perplexed."

"I have always been a man of the book. I have always been a man of the word."

"I have always been fascinated by mirrors, because they are a kind of portal to another world."