“The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.by this, and only this, we have existed.”

“What have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment's surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retractBy this, and this only, we have existed.”

“My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment’s surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retractBy this, and this only, we have existedWhich is not to be found in our obituariesOr in memories draped by the beneficent spiderOr under seals broken by the lean solicitorIn our empty rooms”

“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”

“Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.”

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”