You mean I’ve come all this way to kill a man, and you tell me he’s gone? — Samuel R. Delany

Look, if he’s alive, there’s nothing we have to do about it. If he’s dead, there’s nothing we can do.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words.