Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. - Isaac Asimov

What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term disadvantages. The Machines taught us to set up a human society which would minimize that, but the near-disaster of the early Twenty-first Century has left mankind suspicious of innovations.

A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.

Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes