If thou wilt, remember

"I don't know if this is me at all, Or just some ghost of me that I dreamed up Just to sing myself to sleep, Or someone that I used to be, Or someone that I will be, Or someone that I am right now..."

"Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is."

"Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory."

"But every transformation is invariably a loss, and the transformed must be mourned before the transformed-into can be relished. "

"But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not"