I've Seen Things

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

(Roy Batty, Blade Runner)

It is something we all want to say.  But you can't say it any more.  You just can't.

No, I think I am probably wrong.  I don't know what people want to say.  I am usually mistaken.

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UPDATE

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I just found out that yesterday was Edward Hopper's birthday, born in 1882.  Here is Roger Ebert's favorite Hopper painting.  

Of his impending death, Ebert has said: 

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home fromParis.^[70]

^{All lost like tears in the rain.}