Sheri S. Tepper

“The first thing you do when you're in a hole is stop digging.”

“Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was no fault of nature that we failed to see this.”

“God isn't a good manager. He has a department of lavender ladies and another of iridium cowboys, and He has no idea what to do with them.”

“There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.”

“When we have peace, then we will be fools not to be pacifists.”

“Monsters are seldom monsters from their own point of view.”

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. I say it will end in a pile of unanswered forms.”

“If men can't be trusted, what's to be done with them?”

“Madness is only a variety of daring, a kind of leaping into the dark beyond the boundaries of reason.”

“Belief is a beautiful thing. But it is not a substitute for fact.”

“I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template for righteousness.”

“One learns better what to do than what to be.”

“The universe is not benign. It is not even neutral. It is hostile. It is merciless.”

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially when it is inconvenient.”

“Ritual is the way we carry the sacred.”