Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It d… - Ray Bradbury

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

All the sadder that Stone, on the brink of his greatest work, turned one day and went off to live in a town we shall call Obscurity by the sea best named The Past.