United States, Author April 1, 1942
Samuel Ray Delany Jr., Chip Delany to his friends, is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism and essays on sexuality and society.
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
What you are will make you what you will become.
If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
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