Alfred Bester Quotes
The mind is the reality. You are what you think.



Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.



Thats me, he said, motioning to the robot. Thats all of us. We prattle about free will, but were nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.



The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.



Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.



Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside were always licked by something from the inside. Theres no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.



We always do whats natural, only sometimes we shouldnt do it.



He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.



Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. 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.








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