339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.

My God doesn’t love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression.

Entropy, the idea that the natural flow of heat is from something hot to something cool – not the other way – so that the universe itself is cooling down, running down, dissipating its energy.

The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.

At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what “everyone” is saying, doing thinking – whoever “everyone” happens to be this year.

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.” He.

As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.

The thing is, we hear gunfire so much that we don’t hear it.