74 Quotes by Alfred Bester

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom of the chivalrous knights and their milk-maid passion for the fairy tale princess. But I'm not like that ... inside. I'm not. I'm not. Never. Make it a savage war between us. Don't win me ... destroy me!