Quotes from Gregory Benford

Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature

the land of ideas, you are always renting.

We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

Script writing advice, from (William?) Rotsler (p.80) Funny is better than serious Short is better than long Short and funny is where you stop.

Because the desire to possess the other is... love

Sometimes being human is harder than it looks.

Terrors can be mirrors, too.

Try to get all your posthumous medals in advance.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment.

If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running.

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.

But a lady forced is never a lady won

Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it?

Escape has two steps: first, separating from the pursuer. Then, distancing yourself from the incident, so nobody suspects the distant hubbub has you as its prey.

Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain

But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near

Truth is merely an opinion that has survived

We say that life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.

he had never understood why it was better to kill plants than animals.

On a merry-go-round in the night Coriolis was shaken with fright Despite how he walked 'Twas like he was stalked By some fiend always pushing him right!