A golden age, Londa calls it. She hopes it will return." "Golden ages rarely return," I said "especially if they never existed. - James Morrow

Right before bed, I spend twenty minutes in this place. Then I can sleep."
"You mean you simply sit here, staring at everybody's pain? All you do is look at it?"
"Uh-huh. Just like God.

There are none so blind as those who see angels...None so deaf as those who hear gods.

The fission bomb was a costly mistress. Consider, your Honors. In 1979 this planet celebrated the International Year of the Child. Of the one hundred and twenty-two million children born that year, one of every ten was dead by 1982, and most died for lack of inexpensive food and vaccines. Yet in 1982 the world spent one trillion dollars on weapons. One trillion dollars!