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.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

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

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

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

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.