The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Get...
The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
There is no Pris, he said. Only Rachael Rosen, over and over again.
Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.
Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead.
Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed—all he’s got to do is thump on the drum, and the...
You stupid bastard, does what you’re fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it’s th...
Be free of her sinus headaches which have caused her not to appear before us on TV lately, and that those headaches not have anything
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.
...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 fi...
Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
Ferris Fremont hasn't just taken over the country,' I said, 'He's also taken over human minds. And debased them.' ¶ 'The Bible says don't judge,' Nicholas said. ¶ 'The Bible says, My kingdom is not of...
His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.
I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not...
I will always speak the truth to you, Herb Asher, the boy continued. There is no deceit in God. I want you to live. I made you live once before, when you lay in psychological death. God does not desir...
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