Samuel R. Delany Quotes

I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialis...

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that wor...

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that wor...

But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if yo...

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character ...

Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relations...

And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – ...

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Val...

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon...

...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bo...

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits ...

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we'v...

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with w...

In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, ‘she’ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever ...

You've blotted the rich form of desire from my life and left me only some vaguely eccentric behavior...

Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from ...

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join wi...

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can pu...

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different ...

When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titl...

ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, abl...

The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic fro...

There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate ...

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to,...

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and requ...

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sent...

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an...

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Py...

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word t...

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Th...

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before ...

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.