Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen..
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky..
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Acc….
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time tra….
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down..
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others..
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of….
I'm not much but I'm all I have..
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the m….
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory..
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality di….
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane..
It's not what happened but how it is told..
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find..
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then..
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to ….
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow..
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader..
God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thou….
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible….
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't..