David Gerrold Quotes
- Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
- True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
- The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow…
- Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in…
- Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.
- The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from…
- The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics.…
- It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.
- I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things…
- Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an…
- Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at…
- Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use…
- Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that…
- Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
- Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself…
- The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
- Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
- Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I…
- I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special…