“The process of changing your mind is a tricky one. You start at Position A, which you hold with stern stubbornness, resolving never to give it up. Then you start to question your original resolution. Is it wise to be so stubborn? Perhaps you should consider alternate ideas. You revise your original inflexibility a little, abandoning Position A and adopting Position B, which is very much like it in most ways, with only a few ifs and maybes added. Then, by a gradual series of compromises, private deals, and shifts of purpose, you slide spinelessly through the alphabet until you arrive at Position Z, the total opposite of your original point of view.”
“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