Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.