The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

My past won't change my future, but my present can.

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.