Kane Quotes

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.