Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
“People always get very upset with my not being able to say what we ought to do. I answer using a quote from Voltaire that says ‘What! A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my family: I tell you to get rid of that beast and you ask me, what shall we put in its place!”’”
Curtis White