70 Quotes by Robert Sheckley

If justice really existed, there would be no need for law.

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

- Joey, no situation is entirely unworkable. People have gone through worse bad-rapping than that, and come up smelling like roses.The Shaggy Average American Man Story

Если бы справедливость действительно существовала, то отпала бы необходимость в законе.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.