I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”