[L]ongevity in itself is not a basis for evolutionary selection — natural selection is not interested in us after we have finished child-bearing. – Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms th
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway
