Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

- Robert Silverberg

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

- Robert Silverberg

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

- Robert Silverberg

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

- Robert Silverberg

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg…

- Robert Silverberg

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

- Robert Silverberg

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

- Robert Silverberg

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

- Robert Silverberg

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

- Robert Silverberg