"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull. I look at it and I say, "You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!" The skull snikers and moves ever closer, but that doesn't surprise me. The reason death sticks so close to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."-Life of Pi You were a great man, and you didn't deserve this. Life can be cruel, but we are all in it for the long run, so we can find help in it together, we can be our own light...Eyes up Guardian...