"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is b…

- Barry N. Malzberg

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

- Barry N. Malzberg

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident ev…

- Barry N. Malzberg

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

- Barry N. Malzberg

Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this cond…

- Barry N. Malzberg