Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

Reality is just a point of view.

We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.