I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.