Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

- Scott Westerfeld

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

- Scott Westerfeld

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

- Scott Westerfeld

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

- Scott Westerfeld

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

- Scott Westerfeld

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time …

- Scott Westerfeld

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

- Scott Westerfeld

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

- Scott Westerfeld

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

- Scott Westerfeld