If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.