66 Quotes by Robert Silverberg

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.

He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.

It's a cultural matter. They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom... of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them. Saying, you want us to be filth, we'll live in filth too. Reveling in it. Wallowing in it. If we're not people, we don't have to be tidy....

She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'