“Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.”
“Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the will, thus it is the will and our choices which determine everything.”
“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”
“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”
“This is war, human.” Mab’s voice was cold and remorseless. “It is either kill or be destroyed ourselves.”
“Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”