The ability to change should not be despised. - Brian Aldiss

I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

No, but you see what I mean: you should be able to renew your youth in the generation that follows yours. In your thirties, your sons keep you nimble and laughing. In your forties, they keep you worried and attached to the world. In your fifties, you may have grandchildren to play with. You can live till your grandchildren come along to see your creaking smiles and your card tricks… They replenish you. If everyone's cut off from all that — who's to wonder if time goes wrong, or if poor old Charley gets some crazy idea about seeing gnomes?