When does loyalty become martyrdom?
An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
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.
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.