I never thought that I was very intelligent

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself