“What if you reached the Age of Reason, only to find there was no reprieve,Would you be a Man for All Seasons, or would you just disbelieve?”

“Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.”

“The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.”

“Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?”

“My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you. I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes.”

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.”

“I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving”