One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

—Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain

—Scott Westerfeld

We don't always get to choose what we love.

—Scott Westerfeld

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters—a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

—Scott Westerfeld

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

—Scott Westerfeld

Nature is wont to hide herself.

—Jane Austen

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

—Heraclitus

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

—E. B. White

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

—Daniel Webster