“The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. ”

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

“Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.”

“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”

“Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”

“We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”