Top 15 Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

90% of everything is crap.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?”
“It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Live long and prosper

Nothing is always absolutely so

"Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it."

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

"Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself."

Ask the next question.

He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.

A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology, now had the others: philosophy and logic and love; sympathy, empathy, forbearance, unity, in the idea of their species rather than in their obedience; membership in harmony with all life everywhere.
A people with such feelings and their derived skills cannot be slaves. As the light burst upon them, there was only one concentration possible to each of them — to be free, and the accomplished feeling of being free. As each found it, he was an expert in freedom, and expert succeeded expert, transcended expert, until (in a moment) a billion and a half human souls had no greater skill than the talent of freedom.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.