Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.