“We are so indebted to one another that I think it would freak people out. " …We’re this bizarre species, this one-off, as far as we know. On a planet that is also a one-off, as far as we know. [And] are so precarious as a species that every human born is a blessing. Every human that can possibly understand a little of its of its place in its own society, its own history, and its own planet, is a blessing…” “…just to to be vivacious for any length of time, for like five minutes, I think is a triumph of most people's days. Thank God I get a week at a time, a month, a year… That'd be a dream for so many people.”