We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?
"Introduction to 'Plague of Conscience'", The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)
"Introduction to 'Plague of Conscience'", The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)
"Men on other planets", essay in The Craft of Science Fiction, (1976), edited by Reginald Bretnor
General sources
“Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.”
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 2 “Gold Diggers of 2400 AD” (p. 16)
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 21 (p. 230)
Source: Plague from Space (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 136)
Becker (1982) "Culture: A Sociological View", In: Yale Review, Summer 1982, pp. 513-27.
“Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.”
“I understand that the hyper-partisanship in Washington makes people feel alienated.”
As quoted in "Can Olympia Snowe Change Washington?", interview by Kathleen Fleury and Virginia M. Wright, in Downeast magazine (October 2014).
Context: I understand that the hyper-partisanship in Washington makes people feel alienated. They're frustrated and they're angry, and they should be, but they can do something about it. We've got to turn it around. I'm concerned it's going to become institutionalized. … Make candidates accountable for making government work. That should be a debate question: What are you going to do to make government work? You can't sit on your hands and say, "No, I want it 100% my way." I don't know how this evolved, but I find it irrational — you don't demand that in any other sphere of life. The country is now in a virtual standstill. We can't begin to measure the reverberation of all this legislative neglect five, six, or whatever years into the future.
“Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”
Source: Barracuda
