Philip José Farmer Quotes

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.