They were gnawed within by the grief of knowing that this greatest gift of all gifts was forever out of their reach.

We have found a race that builds for the sheer joy of building, that creates beauty, that writes books, that invents the lives of never-known people to delight…

God destroyed the world before. Once in a flood, when Noah rode it out in the ark. And once the tower of the worlds pride was destroyed in the confusion of ton…

All that you do is mortal - it is all born. It all dies. And yet you struggle against mortality and have overcome it, building up tremendous stores of shared k…

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void? A heart whence warm…