Quotes by Alfred Bester

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

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”

“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot."Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.""Why can't we all move forward...”

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

“I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.”

“I've 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.""You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children.""Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like child...”

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

“Don't 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...”

“Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.”