The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

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

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.