Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

I need them and they need me to need them

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.