I have known a man of grace and wisdom. He found me interesting. I'm quite comfortable with boring you.

Humans are short-lived species. <...> We're ones who are in a hurry all the time. We're ones who are determined to make decisions without getting enough information, because we want to act now, while we still have time.

...But sometimes i hurt other people, too. And sometimes i do terrible things because i think i'm right. We're all like that. We all have a bit of varelse in us. And a little bit of raman.

...together we will call forth some aiua to come from Outside and take control of a tiny body that our bodies have made, and we'll see that child be varelse on some days and raman on others. On some days we'll be good parents and some days we'll be wretched failures. Some days we'll be desperately sad and some days we'll be so happy we can hardly contain it. I can live with that.

(c) Orson Scott Card