“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”

“Oh. Come on! I left my backpack on the bus.” According to Darwin, you’re a prime candidate for extinction. Too stupid to live!”

“You cannot live like honey throughout your lives because the poisonous insects extinct your being..!”

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

“It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.”

“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth . . . yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day . . .”