11 Quotes by James Blish

When on the last night of his lizard existence he laid his bulging brain case again in that hollow of mosses where there was the most dimness, he knew in his blood that on the morrow, when he awoke into his doom as a thinking creature, he would be old with that age which curses those who have never even for an instant been young. Tomorrow he would be a thinking creature, but the weariness was on him tonight....

The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows and the dark errands of the ghosts there was no longer any way of making a selection. He had entered the cobwebby borderland between the human and the animal, where nothing is ever more than half true, and only as much as half true for the moment.("There Shall Be No Darkness")

There is wanting the unobtainable, and there is the obtaining of desire, and the greatest of these is the wanting, especially since the object of desire usually exists only in some alternate reality, to be mocked by actuality.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long.And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.

Maybe God is on the side of the werewolves.

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.

Now that I’m a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that’s what pleases me.

Who does it hurt? That’s who the story is about.