“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ”
“As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.”
“Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”
“To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.”
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.”