Ecstasy hates company.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

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

I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

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