Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

- Robert Sheckley

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are inter…

- Robert Sheckley

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

- Robert Sheckley

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

- Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

- Robert Sheckley

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

- Robert Sheckley

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

- Robert Sheckley

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and s…

- Robert Sheckley

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

- Robert Sheckley