Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.