Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

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

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

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

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.