70 quotes
It is my lot to wake with anger every morning, to lie down at night even angrier.
Shatterday (1980)
This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
Deathbird Stories (1975)
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
There’s only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.
Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1966)
You’re so far out you’d have to masquerade to get back in.
Deal from the Bottom (1960)
Art was not reality—it was only the appearance of reality.
Silent in Gehenna (1971)
I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories: pain, hate, truth, courage, destiny, friendship, responsibility, growing old, growing up, falling in love, all of these things.
There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound to break them.
Shatterday (1980)
You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
How very much like a native of Earth this creature was. Governed by its stomach and a will to survive. A religion founded in fear and nurtured on terror.
Over the Edge (1970)
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
When you’re alone, as a writer is alone, locked in single combat with the imagination, allies are rare and special.
Shatterday (1980)
There was Art, and there was survival, and sometimes they were mutually exclusive.
Shatterday (1980)
Now he had form and substance.
He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago.
He is the Grand Master, A.E. can Vogt, weaver of a thousand ideas per plot-line, creator of alien thoughts and impossible dreams that rival the best ever built by our kind.