Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil a…

- Sheri S. Tepper

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, gir…

- Sheri S. Tepper

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refus…

- Sheri S. Tepper

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the…

- Sheri S. Tepper

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that cont…

- Sheri S. Tepper

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definit…

- Sheri S. Tepper

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe yo…

- Sheri S. Tepper

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can ide…

- Sheri S. Tepper

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

- Sheri S. Tepper