#sci-fi

"I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws."

"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past."

"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."

"It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy"

"His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit."

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

"I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you."

"Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity."

"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."

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."

"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

"Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing."

"This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

"In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything."

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."