“It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.”

“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”

“Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.”

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the leastinviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon thewalls of memory.”

“Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in that order, since it probably represents the most complex state of organisation that matter has achieved in our universe. We on this planet have an especially proud place as men; for in us as men matter has begun to contemplate itself...”

“No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.”