Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.