Status Updates From Amadeus

“Now I go to become a ghost myself. I will stand in the shadows when you come here to this earth in your turn. And when you feel the dreadful bite of your failures—and hear the taunting of unachievable, uncaring God—I will whisper my name to you: ‘Salieri:Patron Saint of Mediocrities!’ And in the depth of your downcastness you can pray to me. And I will forgive you”