“What once bound himWill make him fleePlace of power-joining of fiveNightSpiritBloodHumanityEarthJoined not to conquer,Instead to overcomeNight leads to SpiritBlood binds HumanityAnd Earth completes.”

“Blood Leads to Humanity, Spirit Leads to Night, and Earth Completes.”

“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”

“What triumph more complete than that of extorting from a conquered foe the admission that he is conquered?”

“Love must be complete! Every man must know how to make love to his woman and prove to her that she is bound to love him.”

“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”