Lord Vetinari. Unseen Academicals, Page 229.

" The patrician took a sip of his beer. 'I have told this to a few people, gentlemen, and I suspect never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of it's roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.' "

Nerd, always.

Books I have read, starting with mostly recently :
ATLAS SHRUGGED... good gods.

Time enough for love, The moon is a harsh misteress, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Golden Apples of the sun, ~ (now not so recent) ~, The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy, First three dune prequels, first three dune books, The Hyperion Cantos, Almost all terry pratchett books, including ~ Strata, feet of clay, Jingo, guards guards, Hogfather, The wee free men, A hat full of sky, Witches abroad, Lords and Ladies, Most of the death gate cycle, Dragon wing, Serpent mage, the seventh gate, the hobbit, the lord of the rings trilogy, The hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse, Thief taker, Friday, For us the living, I will fear no evil, Job: A comedy of Justice, Fight club, Lullaby, Drizzit series, up to the 3 thousand orcs/two swords trilogy, variable Star, Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Dirk gentlys holistic detective agency, The long dark tea time of the soul, A nameless witch, Gils all fright diner, In the company of Ogres, The legend of bagger vance, Battlefield earth, some Shakespeare, The art of war, The Tao teh Ching, Fragile things, Anasazi boys, ~ more more more i'm not thinking of mentioning... Oh, Perfume. Great book that... I am pretty pathetic now-adays, if it is not entertaining, tis a bit harder for me to read anymore. I should remedy that...