Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure..
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night..
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for th….
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?.
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside..
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only worl….
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a va….
Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools..
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will….
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish..
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom..
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back..
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck..
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance..
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to schoo….
Where there's dope, there's hope!.
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person..
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them..
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful..
In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim..
Activity does not necessarily mean life..