Alexei Panshin

“Night is irregular. What is not done in the daytime becomes possible at night: murder and sex and thought. Simple men are…

— Alexei Panshin

This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great…

— Alexei Panshin

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

— Alexei Panshin

“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery…

— Alexei Panshin

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do,…

— Alexei Panshin

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is,…

— Alexei Panshin

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

— Alexei Panshin

“If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the…

— Alexei Panshin

“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,…

— Alexei Panshin

“I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help…

— Alexei Panshin

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

— Alexei Panshin

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him…

— Alexei Panshin

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

— Alexei Panshin

“I don't like the idea of people who don't sing to themselves when they're all alone. They're too sober for me. At…

— Alexei Panshin

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to…

— Alexei Panshin

Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

— Alexei Panshin

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And…

— Alexei Panshin

“Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger…

— Alexei Panshin

“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or…

— Alexei Panshin

“The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.”

— Alexei Panshin

It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely…

— Alexei Panshin

There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There…

— Alexei Panshin

“If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you…

— Alexei Panshin

“It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out…

— Alexei Panshin