The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. – Norman Spinrad
Ive always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. – Norman Spinrad
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And its not by design. The United States dominates because its the biggest market. – Norman Spinrad
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. – Norman Spinrad
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers