Nothing lives forever, in Heaven as it is on Earth. Even the stars grow old, decay, and die. They die, and they are born. There was once a time before the Sun and Earth existed, a time before there was day or night, long, long before there was anyone to record the Beginning for those who might come after.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are, Chapter 1 (p. 11), Random House, Inc. 1992