74 Quotes by Alfred Bester

It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.

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

Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you.

Listen, normals! You must learn what it is. You must learn how it is. You must tear the barriers down. You must tear the veils away. We see the truth you cannot see... That there is nothing in man but love and faith, courage and kindness, generosity and sacrifice. All else is only the barrier of your blindness. One day we’ll all be mind to mind and heart to heart...

She walks. She talks. She adapts. She has been conditioned to respond to the highest bidder.

The man who upsets the morphology of society is a cancer. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

There is no sun.

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.