Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.