Another Dennis Potter sighting. He is quoted at the end of Daniel J. Levitin's Successful Aging, a book I just finished. Potter, knowing he was dying of pancreatic cancer, wrote in his last days, "The only thing you know for sure is the present tense. That nowness becomes so vivid to me now that, in a perverse sort of way, I'm serene. I can celebrate life. ... Things are both more trivial than they ever were -- and more important than they ever were. And the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous."
