but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.