Robert Silverberg Quotes

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.