23 Quotes by Adam Roberts

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic.

He was on the verge of obtaining his heart‘s dream, perhaps; a more alarming prospect than the verge of one‘s own death. For after all death, whatever else it may be when it comes to us, is not going to be a disappointment.

for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too

Whatever language Death speaks is not ours; and most of us spend no time acquiring the complex grammar, in which every verb is irregular and only the past tense obtains, until it is too late

and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away

The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

'A fine story', said Asterinov ....'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei.'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I never know where the Party stands on issues of the supernatural...'.....'It was, - understand, I do not know for sure, I heard this at second or third hand - it was the walk through the forest. Apparently I was just too convincing in the representation of a poor man's yearning for money...'