a quote I really liked:

(developing thoughts after mentioning the Toni Morrison quote about evil being predictable): "My ancestors survived an apocalypse, so many of ours did, and yet here I am, writing to you. To me, real human conviction, the courage to be good- even when all you've faced is bad- is magic. It's to learn how to alchemize, to make shit into gold. How else can I explain being here? Other than that I am trapped into an infiniteness that had been quashed and shattered, but I never surrendered to the pain and anger of the hurt. To me, goodness is far more interesting because it is harder. Society should change, and it should evolve even if it's harder work. If governments are failing us (which they are), we have an option to completely rewrite the script so that nobody faces scarcity."