To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. – Jorge Luis Borges
To the man-in-the-street, who, Im sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man whos untrue to his wife. – W. H. Auden