Best 8 quotes of James Blish on MyQuotes

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.

I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long. And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.

The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows and the dark errands of the ghosts there was no longer any way of making a selection. He had entered the cobwebby borderland between the human and the animal, where nothing is ever more than half true, and only as much as half true for the moment. ("There Shall Be No Darkness")