We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
P. D. JamesWithout the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P. D. James