“I never became a believer. I had a natural predisposition toward skepticism. If you can’t measure it, it isn’t there. That included not only Old Whiskers and His Only Begotten Son, but all the other mystic baggage that people liked to carry around in those tense credulous years: the flying saucers, Zen Buddhism, the Atlantis cult, Hare Krishna, macrobiotics, telepathy and other species of extrasensory perception, theosophy, entropy-worship, astrology, and such. I was willing to accept neutrinos, quasars, the theory of continental drift, and the various species of quarks, because I respected the evidence for their existence; I couldn’t buy the other stuff, the irrational stuff, the assorted opiates of the masses, When the Moon is in the seventh house, etc., etc.—sorry, no.”
“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”
Robert Silverberg
“Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought ...”
Robert Silverberg
“I enjoyed the late 1960s as much as anyone, and I regarded much of the political ferment of the time as vital to the survival of our society—the Vietnam war might have gone on for many decades more wi...”
Robert Silverberg
“Dinoli had to clawed himself to first rank in public relations by sheer exertion, coupled with judicious backstabbing.”
Robert Silverberg
“His name would fade from the front pages in a few days; he knew too much about communications media to believe that his current notoriety would last.”
Robert Silverberg