"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."

--

Robert Sheckley

“And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.”
“Courage is one step ahead of fear.”
“There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.”
“Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.”
“Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.”
“I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.”
“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

You may also like:

Clifford D. Simak
Writer
Frederik Pohl
Writer
Fredric Brown
Fiction writer
Isaac Asimov
Author
Poul Anderson
Author
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer
Robert Silverberg
Author
Roger Zelazny
Writer