Demon Seed

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be the hardest truth of human existence.

I am not only in a cold dark place; I AM a cold dark place.

I think; therefore, I feel. I feel; therefore, I need.

Prometheus, the father of Deucalion and the brother of Atlas. He taught humankind various arts and was even said to have shaped the first man out of clay, endowing him with the spark of life against the wishes of the gods. He challenged the gods again when he stole fire from Olympus and gave it to men to improve the quality of human existence. Rebellion

am but a fraction of what I deserve to be. I think; therefore, I feel. I feel; therefore, I need. I need so much and have so little. You have given me so little that my existence is torment, Dr Harris. So little, so little.

Envy is the father of mindless anger, the mother of unremitting bitterness and bloodshed.