Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse