Science-fiction Quotes

And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick to...

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes l...

Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say ...

There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the f...

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately...

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some s...

It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantast...

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe...

Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will p...

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual...

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illo...

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting o...

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitab...

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so mu...

...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changeles...

Good,” said the First Speaker. “And tell me, what do you think of all this. A finished work of art, ...

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in th...

Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In ...

Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic...

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the...

Kandinski looked up. 'Do you read science fiction?' he asked matter-of-factly.'Not as a rule,' Ward ...

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. N...

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for...

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

New York City is finished," he said. "They can't keep order there, and you can't have business witho...

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give ...

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But...

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things...

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the...

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real with...

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told h...

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beg...

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe:...

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people...

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ...

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered pri...

If you ordered up a whore here, you'd probably get a theater major doing Joan Crawford as Sadie Thom...

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosin...

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself w...

I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anyt...

The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us....

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survi...

If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when th...

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose t...

I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93...

Never tell a computer to forget it.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Vampires are people too!

You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat....

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about me...

Nice passion is reading

Book is a nice companion

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company y...

Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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.