Robert Silverberg Quotes
“I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen.”
Book 1, Chapter 15 (p. 113)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 17 (p. 62)
“Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.”
Source: Short fiction, The Emperor and the Maula (2007), p. 476
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 7 (p. 21)
“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”
Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 29 (p. 162)
“Research, he calls it. Research.”
Pitkin sneered. “Junkie!”
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. “Economist!”
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
Source: The World Inside (1971), Chapter 7 (p. 483)
“Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.”
Source: The World Inside (1971), Chapter 6 (p. 451)
Source: Downward to the Earth (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 231)
Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 21, “And Southward Aye We Fled” (p. 106)
“She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.”
Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 18, “To the Toy Fair” (p. 85)
“The fascination of what’s difficult,” said Chalk. “It spins the world on its bearings.”
Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 1, “The Song the Neurons Sang” (p. 7)
Introduction (p. vi)
Thorns (1967)
“Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward.”
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 7 “We Play a Little Game” (p. 122)
“Like all bureaucrats, he was bewildered by an unpredictable development.”
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 2 “The Realm of Moctezuma XII” (p. 33)
“The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.”
Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 15 (p. 62)
“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”
Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 7 (p. 25)
“A man who lies to himself is the worst liar of all.”
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 162)
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 158)
“Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.”
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 1 “Across the Ocean Sea” (p. 23)
