In The End, The Work Of Diplomats

Cultural Contamination That Is Directed Outward Is Always Seen As ‘enlightenment.'

History And Geology Show What An Eyeblink It's Been Since Our Current, Comfortable Culture Came About. And Yet That Culture Is Using Up Absolutely Everything At A Ferocious Rate.

In All Of History, We Have Found Just One Cure For Error—a Partial Antidote Against Making And Repeating Grand, Foolish Mistakes, A Remedy Against Self-deception. That Antidote Is Criticism.

I Would Normally Never Set Out To Write A Trilogy.

Petals Floating By, Drift Through My Woman's Hand, As She Remembers Me.