It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
Kim StanleyDesire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.
Kim StanleyReincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.
Kim StanleyWhen Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, โWhere are all my friends?
Kim Stanley