Status Updates From The Gift of Fire / On the H...

"He was the kind of guy who thought he knew everything- and that the world orbited this knowledge. If he had been a heart doctor and you came to him with the early signs of cancer, he would have prescribed blood pressure medicine and suggested a bypass."

"When he was last on earth humans built great and small mausoleums to bury their dead, ushering them from this world to the next. Now the entire race built a Hades to live in, a kind of madhouse of poisons, screaming machines, and lies."

It’s amazing how human nature creates the feeling of security for itself, believing in a world that might cease to exist at any moment - might already be gone.