“ But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voi… Samuel R. Delany
“ ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative… Samuel R. Delany
“ Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're goin… Samuel R. Delany
“ I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they… Samuel R. Delany
“ To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites. Samuel R. Delany
“ Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relationships. Often they're drunks. And writing—good writing—does not get easier and easier with practice. I… Samuel R. Delany
“ There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.' Katin looked toward the front of the car. The ca… Samuel R. Delany
“ The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is anyon… Samuel R. Delany
“ The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. Samuel R. Delany
“ Stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of t… Samuel R. Delany
“ When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titles I could – nearly filled the box. But one of the more eccentric librarians at the internment compo… Samuel R. Delany
“ Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language. Samuel R. Delany
“ It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s Samuel R. Delany
“ Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts). Samuel R. Delany
“ 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. Samuel R. Delany
“ Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from reconstruction memory becomes the yearning that is, finally, desire. That socially surrounded absenc… Samuel R. Delany
“ Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense. Samuel R. Delany
“ And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – not from desire but from that idiocy always there to subvert desire and render it ludicrous. Our hum… Samuel R. Delany
