Robert Silverberg Quotes

Dinoli had to clawed himself to first rank in public relations by sheer exertion, coupled with judicious backstabbing.

Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers.

My life was in crisis. All my values were becoming meaningless. I was discovering that my chosen profession was empty, foolish, as useless as—as playing chess.

You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.

Forget it. No, don’t forget it. Don’t forget anything. Take a lesson from it: collect all the data before shouting nonsense.

As we zoomed along on the Chaos Express, I was sometimes tempted toward godliness the way the godly are tempted toward sin. But my love of divine reason left me no way to opt for the irrational.

Stand near me and you get sick. Why? It reminds you that you’re an animal too, because you get a full dose of me. So we go round and round in our endless feedback. You hate me because you learn things about your own soul by getting near me. And I hate you because you must draw back from me. What I am, you see, is a plague carrier, and the plague I carry is the truth. My message is that it’s a lucky thing for humanity that we’re shut up each in his own skull. Because if we had even a little drop of telepathy, even the blurry nonverbal thing I’ve got, we’d be unable to stand each other. Human society would be impossible.

“We are not accustomed to threats here,” Lorivade declared.
“I make no threat. I speak only of inevitable consequences.”

No man ever looked more like a President than Harding; it was his only qualification for the job, but it was enough to get him there.

He didn’t have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer.

If the Government was going to all this trouble to keep people calm, then there had to be something big to worry about. That much was axiomatic.