At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.