It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.

— Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster Quotes

Awkwardly pressed up against him, the Princess seemed to take no notice of their proximity. In the dampness, though, her body heat was near palpable to Luke and he had to force himself to keep his attention on what he was doing.

— Alan Dean Foster

Why did you let the alien survive inside Kane?’ The science officer scowled. ‘I’m not sure you’re getting through to me. Nobody “let” anything survive inside anybody. It just happened.

— Alan Dean Foster

You know what I’m talking about. Mother was monitoring his body. You were monitoring Mother.

— Alan Dean Foster

That’s not what’s bothering you, is it? You’re worried about what they might find. Or have we all misjudged you and you’re really a high-minded seeker after knowledge, a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of the known universe?’ ‘Hell, no.’ Parker didn’t seem the least offended by Ripley’s casual sarcasm. ‘I’m a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of my bank account.

— Alan Dean Foster

Drake complied. ‘Learned that one in tech class,’ he informed the occupants of the operations bay. ‘Got to make sure you hit the left side only or it doesn’t work.’ ‘What happens if you hit the right side?’ Ripley asked curiously. ‘You overload the internal pressure control, the one that keeps your helmet on your head.’ She could see Drake smiling wolfishly into Frost’s camera. ‘Your eyeballs implode and your brains explode.’ ‘What brains?’ Vasquez let out a snort.

— Alan Dean Foster

My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are.

— Alan Dean Foster

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else’s.’ For.

— Alan Dean Foster

Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

— Alan Dean Foster

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

— Alan Dean Foster

Parker sat still, letting the last vestiges of the memory fade from his mind. They left a pleasantly lascivious residue behind. Absently, he flipped a key switch over his console. A gratifyingly green light appeared above it, held steady.

— Alan Dean Foster

The poetry, you see, was when he moved. – “Dream Done Green.

— Alan Dean Foster

Forgive me. I feel it again. The pull to the light. The Supreme Leader senses it. Show me again the power of the darkness, and I will let nothing stand in our way.

— Alan Dean Foster

You can still have children. We’ll buy out your contract. You’ll get everything you deserve. We owe you.’ She wavered. ‘You’re not going to take it back?

— Alan Dean Foster

You try kicking some butts here and they’ll eat your leg right off.

— Alan Dean Foster

Naturally, there was nothing to say. Kane was dead. He’d been alive, now he was not alive. None of the crew were particularly strong with words.

— Alan Dean Foster

Say nothing,” Essada suggested. “It makes you more tolerable.

— Alan Dean Foster

The Empire does what is necessary,” the subofficer observed in a phlegmatic manner which would have gratified his superiors.

— Alan Dean Foster

Impossible for me to harm or, by omission of action, allow to be harmed a human being.

— Alan Dean Foster

Building better worlds.

— Alan Dean Foster

You’re all crazy,’ he muttered. ‘You know that.’ ‘Man,’ Vasquez told him softly, ’why else would anyone join the Colonial Marines?

— Alan Dean Foster
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