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

It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.