Philip Jose Farmer Quotes

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Nature is an experimenter.

It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.