You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.