“ Animals fight wars, flowers practice peace. ”
A man is what a man is, he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.
~ James Edwin Gunn
The admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.
Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic,” his pedia said.