To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
“Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'”
“Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.”