In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you

You can’t eat coconut without breaking its shell

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought “stay” mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he’d already taken off with Alma’s heart.

One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

THTL— too hot to live