The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”

“I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.”

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start …”

“We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's…”