Once upon a time there had been tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
And then there was not.

To see madness is one thing. But to see it and understand it too is another kind of unicorn.

Larry Niven



There are days of doubt, more often lonely nights, when even the devout wonder if they are heirs to a greater kingdom than this earth and if they will know mercy - or if instead they are only animals like any other, with no inheritance except the wind and the dark.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality.

Dean Koontz



I cannot know where I most wish to be because I have not seen all that there is.

R.A. Salvatore



I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act.

Abraham Maslow



The intelligence of the planet is constant, and the population is growing.

Arthur C. Clarke



The way to live a long time--oh, a thousand years or more--is something between the way a child does it and the way a mature man does it. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it--but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert Heinlein