You, Doctor Martin, walk ( Read more... )

Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.

All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it, nothing is so perfect ( Read more... )

they left me with your shadow,
saying things like Life is not fair
& i believed them for a long time.
but today, i remembered the way you laughed
and the heat of your hand in mine
and i knew that life is more fair than we can ever imagine
if we are there to live it.

...He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; ( Read more... )

Past one o'clock. You must have gone to bed ( Read more... )

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The season is blank; bearded face ( Read more... )

Julian died alone, convinced that nobody would remember him or his books and that his life had meant nothing,’ she said. ‘He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.’

The extraordinary patience of things ( Read more... )