City of a Thousand Suns Quotes

“You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns

“Discipline that isn’t self-discipline doesn’t mean a thing to a boy.”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns

“When a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he’ll believe anybody who tells him how, right or wrong.”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns

“Know then this journey seeks to define ends, seeks shores where farther oceans start; caged by the over-muscled heart, we are trapped in that bright moment where we learned our doom, but still we struggle, knowing, too, that freedom is imposed the very moment when the trap springs...”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns

“For three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn’t the embarrassed animal...”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined mind, with critical faculties shocked and fragmented on grief; because if they are great ... they cost too much!”
― Samuel R. Delany, City of a Thousand Suns