But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

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

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

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

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.