When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
Authority. The antithesis of science.
We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.