People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.