Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.