Nightflyers Quotes

“I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust.”
― George R.R. Martin, Nightflyers

“Why the hell is man so driven, anyway? Why is he out to conquer the galaxy, the universe, whatever? Looking for God, maybe …? Maybe. He can’t find him anywhere, though, so on he goes, on and on, always looking. But always back to the same darkling plain in the end.”
― George R.R. Martin, Nightflyers and Other Stories

“Man invents gods because he’s afraid of being alone, scared of an empty universe, scared of the darkling plain.”
― George R.R. Martin, Nightflyers and Other Stories