'An expert in extinction.'

"All you see when you look back is this gaping void. Not only your childhood, but the whole of your past, is a gaping void. This is why it's best not to look back. You have to understand that you mustn't look back, if only for reasons of self-protection... Whenever you look back into the past, you're looking into a gaping void. Even yesterday is a gaping void, even the moment that's just passed."
--Thomas Bernhard, Extinction.