“Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.”

About Octavia E. Butler

1947 – 2006

American science fiction author known for 'Parable of the Sower' and 'Kindred', and the Earthseed philosophy at the centre of her novels.

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.”

“I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another.”

“Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”