When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.

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

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

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