Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.