It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.