"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."

"This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you."

"Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."