Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.