Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

There is no later. This is later.

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.