If You Don't Want To Go To

There's Always A Price For What You Want.

He Had Regrets, Of Course, But Not So Many That He Would Lose Any Sleep Over Them. Life Surprised Him Now And Then And He Didn't Much Care For Surprises, Unless He Was Passing Them Out. But - What Was To Be Done? You Had To Deal With The Reality, He Had Learned That Over The Years, No Matter How Much You Didn't Like It

You Can't Embrace Your Whole Life If You're Shut Down. I Found Out That I Can't Just Run Away And Shut Down. I'm Losing The Rest Of My Life Doing That.

This Would Be A Tricky Operation, No Doubt Of That, And A Mistake Would Probably Be Fatal. So Many Things He Had Done Over The Years Would Have Been Fatal, Had His Luck Not Been Strongly Good. He Had Cheated Death Dozens Of Times, But That Did Not Mean He Could Take It As A Given. A Man Needed Only One Fatal Mistake To End The Game.

Humans Suffer From Self-centred Notions As To The Nature Of Life. Humans Assume That Alien Life Forms Should Conform To Standards That Match Our Own, Including Logic And Morality. Even Among Humans, Morality Is Ignored When Expedient. Why Should We Expect More From An Alien Life Form Than We Demand From Ourselves?