Quotes About Delany

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.

Bear in mind that the novel--no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective--is always an historical projection of its own time.

You can program a computer to make mistakes, and you do it not by crossing wires, but by manipulating the 'language' you teach it to 'think' in.

Here one page, possibly two, is missing.

Novels were primarily about relationships. … Their popularity lay in that they belied the loneliness of the people who read them, people essentially hypnotized by the machinations of their own consciousness.

But right now I want to answer his question." He turned back to Lorq. "But to tell you—" he walked to the wall and gazed out across the city—"I have to tell you some history. And not what you learned at Causby.

Huh?—well, in these big … Eh, with blood … Eh … blood. The murder victims' blood. That's pretty—you know—grim.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!