Greg Bear Quotes

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

I will learn by screwing up.

He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?