Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great..
I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given ….
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how..
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'.
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life int….
What constitutes the authentic human being?.
I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always though….
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pe….
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes..
...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the populatio….
He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it..
When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He….
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about tha….
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who ….
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems….
In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel..
No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile..
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and….
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations..
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children..