Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.