For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.