Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never see….
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Budd….
You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it w….
Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in be….
The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and ….
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practica….
I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong..
Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might commu….
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man ca….
Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?.
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown..
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work..
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other..
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, ….
You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury..
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "….
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine.
Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real..
THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS..
Emigrate or Degenerate..
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only th….