41 Quotes by Philip José Farmer

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

I seldom lie,' he said.

Purgatory is hell with hope.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

I missed the sad things about growing old, when women no longer look at you, when wine makes you weep instead of laugh and makes your mouth sour with the taste of weakness, and every day is one day nearer death.