"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches."

"If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones."

"I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all."