Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“It’s because I hate to think that anything goes to waste. I mean, that anything that was ever important or valuable or precious to… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
“As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share
