One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.