Norman Spinrad

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

[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.

When 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.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

It'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.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.

Who 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 reality

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.