There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.