Philip José Farmer Quotes

“Would you like to talk?”
“When I dream, I am talking.”
“But to yourself.”
“Who knows me better?” He laughed softly.
“And who can deceive you better,” she said a little tartly.

Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

Styles was an old Mississippi pilot, a handsome youth, no liar, though given to inflating facts.

He was stiff and sometimes a little strange, which was what you’d expect from an engineer, but he had a moral backbone as inflexible as a fossilized dinosaur’s.

I ought to arrest your assertions for vagrancy. They certainly are without any visible support.

His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.

Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.

It was not that he was unintelligent. It was just that he was not emotionally able to comprehend democracy.

“It’s a nice toy and makes a lot of noise and looks impressive and will kill a man. But it’s wasteful and inefficient.”
“You make it sound like a congressman,” Sam said.

Where this area had been beautiful with its many trees and bright grass and the colored blooms of the vines that covered the trees, it was now like a battlefield. It had been necessary to create ugliness to build a beautiful boat.

But we may not be able to climb high enough. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.

A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited — although some refuse to face even that fact — so new ones must be invented.”