Quotes from Robert Silverberg

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.