Quotes from Alfred Bester

impossible. Teleportation is a Tigroid Function. (Applause) Any man was capable of jaunting provided

There are fighting generals (vital to an army), political generals (vital to an administration), and public relations generals (vital to a war).

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief