Alan Dean Foster > Quotes

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”
― Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point.

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”
― Alan Dean Foster, Voyage of the Basset

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes”
― Alan Dean Foster