The Apple

"I really don't see the point in it. Just think! Garden garden garden garden garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, family! Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder..."

"Well," Willaim said brightly, "and sex... In fact, you could look at both family and mortality simply as byproducts of sexual reproduction."

--From the short story "Some Other, Better Otto" by Deborah Eisenberg