One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

Do ants get headaches?

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

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

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.