“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
“I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.”
“And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.”
“A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.”
“[The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.”