No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, well do what weve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. – Octavia Butler
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when youre hurt, youre really on your own. Youre alone, and theres no one to help you. – Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadnt had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. – Octavia Butler
The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congresss power in the future. – John Podhoretz