Tom Quinn

“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

“Just as with storytelling, so with life: it's important how well it is done, not how long.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“The approach of a man's life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive.”
― Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980