01Undated[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
02UndatedIt ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
03UndatedWe shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
04UndatedWho was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane realityNorman Spinrad / quote ↗
05UndatedKiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
06UndatedAt least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
07UndatedIt's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
08UndatedThe world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
09UndatedWhen you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.Norman Spinrad / quote ↗
