Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88) — David Zindell

"All living things are afraid to die." "No, youre exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."

"But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever..."

"For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down."

"To be what you want to be: isnt this the essence of being human?"

"The secret of life is more life."

"Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes."