Quotes About Author

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue,' wrote Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

If true, this meant Billing was guilty, if not of treason, then certainly insurrection. In a world worried by revolution and the rise of the radical right, he was a dangerous man.

By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!

Almost all the proofreading editors I've encountered seem to have gone to a college where there's a class listed in the catalog as "How To Put Commas In The Wrong Place And The Writer In A Coma.

As for paranoia, anyone who has the imagination to postulate all possibilities is automatically a paranoiac.

this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness

I like commas.

The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.

Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed.

To inspire himself, he lit up a marijuana cigarette, excellent Land-O-Smiles brand.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts....

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.

We trust—I'll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it's our goddamn superior intelligence!

Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.

I finally found a setting for despair…So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything...

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels.

Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce—he was a clown; we all know that.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

DICK: I think philosophically I fit in with some of the very late pre-Socratic people around the time of Zeno and Diogenes—the Cynics, in the Greek sense. I am inevitably persuaded by every argument that is brought to bear.

Jesus Christ! I said. You can't sleep with a bishop! I already have, Kirsten said.

it was an odd sensation, knowing intellectually that they were machines but emotionally reacting anyhow.