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

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

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

All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.