The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared. - Richard Matheson

Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in.

Don’t families stay together?” “Not necessarily,” he told me. “Earth ties have less meaning here. Relationships of thought, not blood, are what count.

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.