The only perspective that matters is the human one, Tagiri knew. We are the only ones who care; we are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics

How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than I clean, painless death?

Individual people always sacrifice for the sake of the community. When it matters enough, people sometimes even die, willingly, for the good of the community t…

He shuddered at his own fragility. He had thought he was a stronger man than that

There's no dearth of kindness In this world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.