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.
Octavia ButlerIn 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.
Octavia ButlerThe thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Octavia Butler