Quotes from Robert Silverberg

that this must be the earliest science-fiction story still in existence, for surely the tale of a quest for an immortality serum qualifies as science fiction.

the thing is that it labels.

ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE. Those skeletons were part of the psychological warfare waged against all intruders by this mindless, deathless, diabolical city.

They had been unable to move that vast placid mass of citizens, the ones who were satisfied with the government, whatever sort of government it might happen to be, the ones who feared rocking the boat more than they feared being devoured by the boat.

I don't care what he looks like, if he smiles and shares his food then he's human by me.

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

They spoke in fragments and ellipses, in paraphrastics and aposiopesis, in a style abundant in chiasmus, metonymy, meiosis, oxymoron, and zeugma; their dazzling rhetorical techniques left him baffled and uncomfortable, which beyond much doubt was their intention.

There is a convalescent quality to our friendship nowadays, as we tiptoe gently through the garden where our old hatred lies buried.

I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.

Under the two moons of Hydrot, and under the eternal stars, the two-inch wooden spaceship and its microscopic cargo toiled down the slope toward the drying little rivulet.

I entered theaters—where the happy lotus-eaters sat slumped in their massage chairs, transfixed by the glowing tridim images—and capered down the aisles.

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed?" "Like that, yes.

He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.

They were wise in their own skills, but most of them seemed to think that that made them wise in everything, which did not appear to be the case.

El yo soñado que dormía no notaba la presencia de Halum, pero el yo soñado que observaba la percibía, y yo, el verdadero soñador, los percibía a los dos, y también percibía que todo lo que estaba viendo me llegaba en una visión.

I did not dare spurn him, anyway. It might have been construed as a crime of coldness once again. My fifth offense would have meant five years of Invisibility. I had learned humility.

What harsh sour souls they must have had, these frightening and frightened folk, creating for themselves in the lush fertile plains of India such a Supreme Soviet of a city!

We live in other people. And when one of our friends dies, then that part of us that has lived in him dies, too.

I'm not ready to fuck an empress just yet

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

No puedes declararme culpable de pecados cometidos en sueños.

What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

Somewhere Dostoevsky has written, "Without God, all things are possible." I can amend that. "To the invisible man, all things are possible—and uninteresting.