115 quotes
At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
The Last Defender of Camelot (1980)
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.
The Dream Master (1966)
Anyone who rushes toward an unknown peril simply to satisfy a desire for excitement is a fool.
Today We Choose Faces (1973)
There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.
Isle of the Dead (1969)
To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.
Lord of Light (1967)
Then I could turn around and justify that, by saying that it isn’t really paranoia if there really are people out to get you.
Isle of the Dead (1969)
The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.
Isle of the Dead (1969)
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
Lord of Light (1967)
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Four for Tomorrow (1967)
Any human experience should be describable and interpretable—by a good enough writer.
The Dream Master (1966)
After signing it, he added the postscript: By the time you read this, you will already be dead.
Roadmarks (1979)
It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us.
Four for Tomorrow (1967)
Mirror, mirror, why does the real world so seldom cooperate with our aesthetic enthusiasms?
Frost & Fire (1989)
“Buy into a rising market,” had always been his philosophy, not to mention his religion, sex, politics, and aesthetics.
Damnation Alley (1969)
Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can’t hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times.
Unicorn Variations (1983)
Symbols, by their very nature, conceal as well as indicate, damn them!
Isle of the Dead (1969)
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
Freedom of expression must also bow to the necessity for clear communication, as many of science fiction’s failed experiments of the sixties demonstrate.
Unicorn Variations (1983)
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
Four for Tomorrow (1967)
Do not preach to me of progress. Change is not desirable for its own sake, but only if it offers improvement.
Unicorn Variations (1983)