To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.