Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?