"Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty."
- Kathryn Davis
"The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back."
"There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the or..."
"If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?"
"Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago..."
"You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller."
"...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole."
"A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh."
"Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana."
"The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne."