47 Quotes by Norman Spinrad

Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.