Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.