“The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.”
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 12, section 4 (p. 179)
Quotes from book
The Man in the Maze
The Man in the Maze is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, originally serialized in the magazine, Worlds of If April in May 1968, and published in bookstores the following year. It tells the tale of a man rendered incapable of interacting normally with other human beings by his uncontrollable psychic abilities. The novel is inspired by Sophocles' play Philoctetes, with the roles of Odysseus, Neoptolemus and Philoctetes played by Boardman, Rawlins, and Muller, respectively.
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 1, section 2 (pp. 13-14)
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 6, section 8 (p. 89)
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 72)
“I do.”
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 8 (p. 118)
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 8 (p. 120)
“Even earlier.”
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 73)
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 1, section 3 (p. 18)
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 1, section 3 (p. 17)
