“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.” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
