“And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“First of all, Nature has endowed every species1 of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero, perseus.tufts.edu