“[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“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.”
Norman Spinrad“The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.”
Norman Spinrad“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.”
Norman Spinrad“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”
Norman Spinrad, Riding the Torch“Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.”
Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron“At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.”
Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron“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”
Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron“It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.”
Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron“[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, Bug Jack Barron