Quotes by Alfred Bester

“And the bar tender says to Renee Descartes, Another beer? And Descartes says, I think not, and disappears”

Faith in faith he answered himself. It isnt necessary to have something to believe in. Its only necessary to believe that somewhere theres something worthy of belief.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, youre happy.

Theres got to be more to life than just living, Foyle said to the robot.Then find it for yourself, sir. Dont ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.Why cant we all move forward together?Because youre all different. Youre not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.Who leads?The men who must...driven men, compelled men.Freak men.Youre all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. Thats its hope and glory.Thank you very much.My pleasure, sir.Youve saved the day.Always a lovely day somewhere, sir, the robot beamed. Then it fizzed, jangled, and collapsed.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Im not a robot. Im a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and Im trying to see my way clear through this morass.

Ive handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

No, Foyle roared. Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.Youre insane, man. Youve handed a loaded gun to children.Stop treating them like children and theyll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?What are you talking about?Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open. Foyle laughed savagely. Ive ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. Ive blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children whats best for them to know.... Let em all grow up. Its about

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

Dont ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

“If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, youre happy.”