“Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?”
“Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.”
“The idea of life is to give and receive.”
“In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive—but so seldom do you give it to others.”
“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”