“They each raised their glasses from the puddles on the table, and clinked them together in celebration. They weren’t sure what they were celebrating, but more than anything it felt like they were celebrating that exact moment in time and all of the incredible events that had to take place for it to have existed in time at all.”

“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”

“Take comfort in a light only darkness provides.”

“It’s the dark side of the moon which will hold all the keys to who is up there.”

“Popularity is teenage heroin.”

“What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?” he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.”For one thing, Djetth, he wasn’t trying to kill me!”(“Marsh”, heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)”

“As human beings, we’re born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.”

“History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn’t have to be who we are.”

“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”

“Moon base Alpha was there long before man was.”

“Water on Mars isn’t the only thing that they’re going to find.”

“Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that looked disturbingly like an alien orifice probe, broke it, then promptly put it back, hoping it wouldn’t leave someone’s life hanging in the balance because the EMT couldn’t alien-probe his orifices.”

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

“Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall.”

“We’re not words, Henry, we’re people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”