Robert Sheckley

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

— Robert Sheckley

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a…

— Robert Sheckley

“You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his…

— Robert Sheckley

“But that's crazy, " George said. "How can I be the Average American Man? I'm only five foot eight and my name…

— Robert Sheckley

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

— Robert Sheckley

“She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish…

— Robert Sheckley

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I…

— Robert Sheckley

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to…

— Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be…

— Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

— Robert Sheckley

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest…

— Robert Sheckley

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

— Robert Sheckley

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

— Robert Sheckley

“When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other…

— Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

— Robert Sheckley

“- Joey, no situation is entirely unworkable. People have gone through worse bad-rapping than that, and come up smelling like roses. The…

— Robert Sheckley

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much.…

— Robert Sheckley

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow…

— Robert Sheckley

“It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it…

— Robert Sheckley

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try…

— Robert Sheckley

“The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.”

— Robert Sheckley

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

— Robert Sheckley

“Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.”

— Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to…

— Robert Sheckley