Mockingbird

by Walter Tevis

There is something in my mind that will not stop insisting itself.

although a part of me seems to cry out against the intensity of the way I am living and working and making love, I know that it is better this way than any other way that I have ever been.

If someone should come to me and say, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life,’ I would want with all my strength to believe him. I want those things: a way, the truth, and life.

Robots were something invented once out of a blind love for the technology that could allow them to be invented.