“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”

“Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to... whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before ...”

“Why do you talk all the time? I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.I think its cause I dont know any big words, like you and Mummy,...”

“I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. Put them pants on, I said, and be a man. She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, Stop it ...”

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

“The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth.Thats mining, said the Drip. There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was co...”

“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”

“As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice fo...”

“Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that con...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”