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.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--