Monday, July 28, 2014

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week


“Let them be helpless like children because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing.  When a man is born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it is tender and pliant. But when it is dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being, because what has hardened will never win.”


- Stalker (1979)
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