Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

He said harshly, “You are suggesting that we abandon the effort—and relapse into barbarism?”…
“I hope not, captain. It is man’s mind that makes him a barbarian, not his technology. We may have to do without top-level technology, at least for a few generations, but that doesn’t mean we can’t establish a good world here for ourselves and our children, a civilized world. There have been civilizations which have existed for centuries almost without technology. The illusion that man’s culture is only the history of his techno structures is propaganda from the engineers, sir. It has no basis in sociology—or in philosophy.”

Often, in writing, granting the basic skill of writing a literate English sentence—which can no longer be taken for granted even in college graduates—all it takes is determination.

The horror genre—which I define as “perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.”

"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton

You have the Barbarian viewpoint, I see. Radio, for instance. We use it for emergency needs. The Barbarians used to listen to keep from doing things—I know, they even had radio with pictures, and used to sit and listen and look at other people doing things instead of doing them themselves.

Good Lord, what's that unholy racket!"
"I forgot you weren't a Scot, darling, don't you like the bagpipes?

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in. (Gwenhwyfar).