Riverworld Quotes

“Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“even killed a man, though it had been more by accident than skill. But he was an ineffectual warrior. In battle the valves of his heart were turned full open, and his strength poured out.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“What’s that got to do with it?” Sam said. “A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“yet the world between them was wide.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“For the unholy trinity of Bobs: Bloch, Heinlein, and Traurig— may I meet them on the banks of The River, where we’ll board the fabulous Riverboat”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“I’m not a Christian,” Göring said. “I admire a man who can admit that. I don’t think I ever met a preacher who came out and said so, in so many words.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“Back on Earth he could believe in progress, because the young were flexible-minded. The old ones would die off, and then the children of the young whites would be even more free of racial prejudice. But here that just isn’t going”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“I am not a Christian, though I try to practice the better Christian virtues.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“as if it were a gear tooth meshed with the cog of another man’s dream and rotated into and then out of his dream.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“Sam’s heart felt as if it were being licked by a cat.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“Burton struggled to get up onto his feet. Nobody, not even God, was going to punch Richard Burton in the ribs and get away without a battle.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat

“First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.”
― Philip José Farmer, Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat