Quotes by : Samuel R. Delany

The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from....

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with....

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought....

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to....

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in....

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences....

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what....

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley....

You've blotted the rich form of desire from my life and left me only some vaguely eccentric behaviors....

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon....