Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.