She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.