There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
We are fossils in the making.
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.