That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.