Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars Quotes

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.