The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.