Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true - Roger Zelazny

I had no doubts as to the correctness of my own beliefs, that human nature could be altered, that man could be forced to evolve morally.

Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be counted upon to limit itself? Never. It is the equally mindless effort of zero to encompass infinity.

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!”
“You burn prettily,” I said.