People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.