Samuel R. Delany

Quotes

• “But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor...”
• “Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that o...”
• “Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a part...”
• “Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a partic...”
• “An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a ty...”
• “And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – not from desire but ...”
• “Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with...”
• “I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their a...”
• “Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of ...”
• “We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of i...”
• “You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses y...”
• “The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level ...”
• “To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of S...”
• “Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to info...”
• “Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information...”
• “It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anythi...”
• “Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display ...”
• “An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.”
• “The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.”
• “Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.”