Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one. - Patrick White

But the boy was not cheated by her ignorance. He was not intensely interested in answers, the things themselves were enough. So he ran on, holding the leaf by its twig, or feather by its quill, and whereas his mother thought mostly of arriving, discovery kept him in a state of endless being.

— Los ateos, por lo general, lo son por razones mezquinas — aseveró Voss — . La más mezquina de todas ellas estriba en su propia falta de grandeza espiritual, que les impide concebir la idea de un Poder Divino.

The past is desirable, more often than not, because it can make no demands.