Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better! - Sheri S. Tepper

Some people, more often men, spend their entire lives awash in bitterness. They rage against injustices done to their forefathers, perhaps centuries in the past. They rage against injustices done to their countrymen, their families. They rage against people who are unlike themselves, who, by virtue of their difference, must be up to no good. They rage against people who are like themselves who do not share their views. They rage against their parents, their wives, their children, and against anyone who is sympathetic to any of these. Their rage is a screen between them and the world, behind which they huddle over their egos, like a caveman over his fire, unable to see out through the smoke.

Sex was pleasurable, sure, but survival was sweeter still.

and there upon the vast prairies, will be the fox. The mighty fox. The implacable fox. The fox who knows they are coming.