Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
4 quotes
"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."
"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."
"In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold."