“There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy.”
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“Memory... strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.”
Eugene Hutz - Alex

“Looking back is a bad habit.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“- Kitty Berman: Does it ever go away?
- Jake Gittes: What's that?
- Kitty Berman: The past.
- Jake Gittes: Well, I think you have to work real hard at that.”
Meg Tilly - Kitty Berman
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes