Spider Robinson Quotes

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

honesty is hard work.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

God is an iron... and that's a hot one.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

Time didn't pass; it tailgated.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it, ' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.