Performance Is An Act Of Faith.

The Incredible New Medical Technology Has Made It Possible For Highly Disciplined Teams Of Surgeons ... To Keep Stricken Organisms Alive Even If The Brain Is Irretrievably Damaged Or Lung And Heart Incapable Of Functioning Without Mechanical Help. Now It Is Not Dust To Dust, But Human To Vegetable.

The Process Of Maturing Is An Art To Be Learned, An Effort To Be Sustained.

The Ultimate Cynicism Is To Suspend Judgment So That You Are Not Judged.

To Be At Peace With Self, To Find Company And Nourishment In Self-this Would Be The Test Of The Free And Productive Psyche.

In Our Long And Obsessive Passion For Youth, We Have - More Than Any Other Modern Society - Avoided Direct Approach To Age And To Dying By Denying Them In Word, In Fact, And - Above All - In Worth.