Philip José Farmer

“Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

“La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion”

“- И защо човечеството получи своята Втора Възможност? - попита Колоп с тихия си сериозен глас.- Нима я заслужава? Не. С малко изключения хората са подло, нищожно, дребнаво, злобно, тесногръдо, невероятно себично, вечно препиращо се и гнусно гъмжило. Като го наблюдават, боговете - или Бог - би трябвало да повърнат. Но в тази божествена храчка се намират и съсиреци на състраданието, моля да ме извините, че си служа с подобни образи. Колкото и да е долен човекът, той съдържа сребърната нишка на божественото в себе си. Не е безсмислено твърдението, че човек е сътворен по образ и подобие Божие. И в най лошите сред нас има нещо, което си струва да бъде съхранено, и от това нещо може да възникне новият човек.”

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

“The fortune of the man who sits also sits”

“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.”

“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.”

“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

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

“...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage”

“Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.”

“As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.”