“In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for... suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.”

“In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for... suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.”

— Fred Chappell