As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
Yes of course I know it’s all a dream. Isn’t everything?
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.
Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You’re going to shoot down a fucking starship. It’ll be an experience.
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils–the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one’s actions.
Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.
I don’t think you really belong here, Aviger.” Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. “I don’t think any of us do.””The brave belong where they decide.” Some harshness entered the Idiran’s voice.
…and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn’t much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind… Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you.
Maybe he’s up to something, maybe he’ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.
Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn’t it been clever? Yes, it had.
The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier oppression.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.