I am not the river I am the net.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

What you cannot control, you must accept.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

Grief is the price of victory.

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

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