"There's too little pleasant in this nasty dying world. We all need to remember how to play, how to be children together for a little while." (Gadi, … - Marge Piercy

"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET)

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it, nor the stories I was told, seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them. I have been at it ever since. We need a past that leads to us. Similarly, what we imagine we are working toward does a lot to define what we will consider doable action aimed at producing the future we want and preventing the future we fear.

"He said to me once he had given up a normal life for the cyborgs. As if he could only create life if he gave up loving and living." (Yod about Avram, twenty-eight: HOW CAN WE TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE?)