even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.