19 Quotes by R. A. Lafferty

We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .

Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.

There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil was cast into hell; any other account you have heard is false.