Quotes by : Samuel R. Delany

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before....

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put....

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require....

When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titles....

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that....

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, ‘she’ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever....

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets,....

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is,....

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an....