It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

— Scott Westerfeld

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

— Scott Westerfeld

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

— Scott Westerfeld

... I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? And want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."" I'd rather have something to say.

— Scott Westerfeld

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are bl objects.

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

— Scott Westerfeld

Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because its human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.

— Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rustics and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

— Scott Westerfeld

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

— Scott Westerfeld