“Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning...”

“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”

“Death is nature's way of making things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is called and the molecules which make up leaf and limb, heart and eye are disassembled and redistributed to other tenants.”

“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.”

“I'll admit that the idea of being adored for nothing but my face and my body has had an occasional appeal, in the way winning the lottery does. The difference is that I have a much better chance of winning the lottery.”

“I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.”