Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels hav…

- Alan Dean Foster

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to …

- Alan Dean Foster

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

- Alan Dean Foster

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

- Alan Dean Foster

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

- Alan Dean Foster

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured…

- Alan Dean Foster

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so befo…

- Alan Dean Foster

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

- Alan Dean Foster

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a ce…

- Alan Dean Foster