You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.

Plan may fail, life goes on.

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.