Science-fiction Quotes

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships....

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what t...

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's...

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness ride...

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Sc...

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hung...

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his s...

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only li...

In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organiza...

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for mo...

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and pr...

I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some ef...

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed...

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.

It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for...

Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world does...

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywher...

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least er...

Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Beca...

Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more i...

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see ...

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what...

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, wh...

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human ...

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same a...

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if y...

Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.'You should relax and enjoy it,...

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we drea...

The kid is scary.

Madness, and then illumination.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls ...

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclus...

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction...

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"- No?"Only skies and stars, in a...

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from...

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are ...

...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and ...

God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now...

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better tha...

Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awak...

The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in additi...

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...

You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there ha...

If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The ...

Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's ...

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said ...

What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voi...

Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he...

It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.”“Wh...

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two)...

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my f...

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives an...

He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But somethin...

Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism...

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings...

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assump...

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradb...

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenali...

The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. ...

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. Th...

There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a childre...

When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was on...

I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the ...

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. She was a...

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science f...

I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I...

Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone....

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things differe...

She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with empt...

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted wat...

Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars...

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?''The third planet is in...

Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Wh...

The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting the...

Fantasy? That's for the Fire Birds. Fantasy, even when it takes science-fictional forms, which it of...

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When...

Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work li...

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatu...

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

It's a long story. Want a refill?""No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?""Right here.""Well...

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phr...