the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, - Isaac Asimov

...the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.

I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly — as secretly as I could — so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.