The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radi…

- R. A. Lafferty

Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and…

- R. A. Lafferty

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

- R. A. Lafferty

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

- R. A. Lafferty

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren…

- R. A. Lafferty

We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

- R. A. Lafferty

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

- R. A. Lafferty

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

- R. A. Lafferty

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

- R. A. Lafferty