"Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths."

“The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.”

“What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?”

Source : Avram Davidson (2011). “The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection”, p.560, Macmillan

“In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.”

“I still hope to kill Fischer”

“We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.”

“The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”