Joan D. Vinge Quotes & Sayings

“We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.”

“What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.”

“Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.”

“The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.”

“Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.”

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”

“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”

“The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.”

“And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.”

“Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.”