To Live Is To Be

To Fight The Empire Is To Be Infected By Its Derangement.... Whoever Defeats The Empire Becomes The Empire; It Proliferates Like A Virus.

Empathy, He Once Had Decided, Must Be Limited To Herbivores Or Anyhow Omnivores Who Could Depart From A Meat Diet. Because,ultimately, The Empathic Gift Blurred The Boundaries Between Hunter And Victim, Between The Successful And The Defeated.

Fear Can Make You Do More Wrong Than Hate Or Jealousy. If You’re Afraid You Don’t Commit Yourself To Life Completely; Fear Makes You Always, Always Hold Something Back. You Shouldn’t Be Alone. It’s Killing You; It’s Undermining You. All The Time, Every Day, You Should Be Somewhere With People.

This, To Me, Is The Ultimately Heroic Trait Of Ordinary People; They Say No To The Tyrant And They Calmly Take The Consequences Of This Resistance.

In This Dark World Where He Now Dwelt, Ugly Things And Surprising Things And Once In A Long While A Tiny Wondrous Thing Spilled Out At Him Constantly; He Could Count On Nothing.