82 Quotes by Poul Anderson

I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.

Who can we trust with a monopoly of the planet killer weapons and unlimited powers of inspection and arrest? Why, a country big and modern enough to make peace-keeping a major industry; but not big enough to conquer anyone else or force its will on anyone without the support of a majority of nations; and reasonably well thought of by everyone. In short, Sweden.

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.-Poul_Anderson

Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.

Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!

If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.

A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?