Immortality

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying."

--Woody Allen

"The response of faith drops the demand that we keep living history and accepts the fact that, in the final analysis, we are born to die...It means that we have to face the loss of our historical potency. After we die, we cannot make history. True, a few important people will still have lingering influence through their works, or their memory may be used as a symbol for some cause or ideology, but they cannot make anything."

(James R. Wilkes, To Wrestle and To Dance, 130)