Everything in life is just for a while.

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?