I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

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.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.