“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

“God, why didn't you make us all dogs?”

“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers”

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

“We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.”

“All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with therecognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.”

“Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.”