“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.”

“You will get no poetry from me, nor songs of love. But I will love you, every day for the rest of my life.”

“In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.”

“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”

“I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.”

“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”