How is it that a man who seems so fully alive and complexly real to himself might fade from existence as rapidly as a lie exposed by truth?

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.

"I felt like Earth in that extraordinary picture of the planet surrounded by a thick layer of space junk."

I have read many of these stories on separate occasions, but reading them all together is a gift.