Samuel R. Delany Quotes
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
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 Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s
Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.
The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.
All life is a rhythm, ” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.