Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

- Samuel R. Delany

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for…

- Samuel R. Delany

The truth is always multiplex.

- Samuel R. Delany

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see ar…

- Samuel R. Delany

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

- Samuel R. Delany

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

- Samuel R. Delany

Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

- Samuel R. Delany

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

- Samuel R. Delany

I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really h…

- Samuel R. Delany