If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.