Unending Story Quotes

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

A book is the only immortality.

Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.