When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Don DeLilloJust because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Don DeLillo