That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die. - David Zindell

This was the true nature of consciousness and the meaning of matter, that ultimately both were one substance without cause or control outside itself.

To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.