Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it..
Reality denied comes back to haunt..
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, ….
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale an….
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear..
A man is an angel that has gone deranged..
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for..
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific..
Every junkie, he thought, is a recording..
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic g….
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious group….
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion..
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph..
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because….
Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on..
To live is to be haunted..
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 ….
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….
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….
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….
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'.