187 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany

I’m eccentric, yes, but I’m not insane.

You claimed that... I would embroil those same carefully and colorfully constructed barrow-pushers and counts and wagoners and cutpurses in perfectly preposterous actions, during the course of which each would declare with great eloquence things that no count or cutpurse would ever possibly say. And if any ever even thought that he or she felt such things, you maintained, it was only from having been taken in by our skits in the first place.

There is so much knowledge available today that there can be no such thing anymore as a classical education that we can expect more than a relatively few people to share.

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.

My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

The history of science fiction tends to be the history of its editors.

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

The whole mechanism of guilt as a deterrent to right action is just as much a linguistic fault.