Quotes from Alan Dean Foster

Crazy thing is, it's all real. The Jedi, the Force—it's true. All true.

For an ordinary man, yes she had replied. But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker

Try to be brief, will you, Tru?" Tse-Mallory asked his companion. "If there is one among us who is guilty of persistent loquacity," came the reply smoothly, "it is not I." "Debatable" was Tse-Mallory's simple retort, as he followed September up the steps leading out of the temple. "Not without being guilty of the crime of debating!" shouted Truzenzuzex

What more valuable possession does a homeless man have than his honor?

Tar-Aiym?" interrupted Kitten. "I know that word. Peot claims to be a Tar-Aiym?" But Philip ignored her.

The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead

I've never known a storyteller who was unhappy when telling stories.

He was struggling also, against her newly discovered ability, as well as the wound inflicted by Chewbacca's bowcaster. Gritting his teeth, he flung his arm sideways in a single, powerful gesture—and the blaster went flying out of her hand.

Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.

I haven't got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that's not how the Force works.

And since he's written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Foster is one hell of an entertainer.

Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

In discovering that half of his biological heritage consisted of nothing more than an impersonal concoction of designer proteins, artificially leveraged by indifferent scientists to produce a zygote that when matured would, they hoped, display certain interesting mental abilities, he had felt something fundamental drain out of him. He had been nothing more than a test, an experiment, one among many.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.

The dining hall itself was splendid; high-vaulted, with enough decorative pennants and banners and hanging crystal to suggest that the master of this manse desired to at least imitate the trappings of a nobility he did not possess through natural descent. Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

The Millennium Falcon." She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs." "Twelve parsecs.

Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!" exclaimed the alien.

Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.

Sometimes, my friend, we are forced into situations we don't like, that make us uncomfortable, that we think we haven't a chance in hell of coping with. But people cope, Frank. They cope all the time.

meal was sensitized: any nonprogrammed disruption

With regret, he realized that despite his intensive studies there was still much about this world and its dominant Larian society that he did not know. And of course he had not been able to bring with him anything of an advanced nature, like a vorec, which would have allowed him to look up the answers to such questions.

When there is a need for heroes and they are so inconsiderate as not to invent themselves, others take up the task for them.

There will be a feasting tonight," said Malu, trying to lighten the atmosphere. "We can discuss your request then." "That's not necessary," said Flor. "But it is," the lemur argued. "You see, we can welcome you either as enemies or as guests. There will be a feasting either way.

There are few drugs, Clothahump mused, that can numb both the heart and the mind. Among them grief is the most powerful.