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I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back. — Robert Sheckley

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint. — Robert Sheckley

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously. — Robert Sheckley

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it. — Robert Sheckley

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. — Robert Sheckley

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which. — Robert Sheckley

Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us. — Robert Sheckley

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory. — Robert Sheckley

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? — Robert Sheckley

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret. — Robert Sheckley

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights. — Robert Sheckley

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. — Robert Sheckley

- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions. — Robert Sheckley

He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle. — Robert Sheckley

An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all. — Robert Sheckley

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. — Robert Sheckley

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley

Sanity is a matter of consensus. — Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. — Robert Sheckley

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore. — Robert Sheckley

Science fiction is very healthy in its form. — Robert Sheckley

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. — Robert Sheckley

The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses. — Robert Sheckley

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. — Robert Sheckley

Number 402, your name is Will Barrent. Age 27, blood type O-L3, Index JX-221-R. Guilty of murder. — Robert Sheckley

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now. — Robert Sheckley

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. — Robert Sheckley

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important. — Robert Sheckley

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. — Robert Sheckley

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work. — Robert Sheckley