Robert Stone Quotes


"Life is a means of extracting fiction."
- Robert Stone
(Related: Life, Fiction)

"It's all about letting the story take over."
- Robert Stone
"It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?"
- Robert Stone
"What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export."
- Robert Stone
(Related: America)

"I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America."
- Robert Stone
(Related: Society, War, America, Now, Soldiers, Trying)

"Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?"
- Robert Stone
(Related: Tomorrow)

"At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on."
- Robert Stone
(Related: Time, Feelings, Difference, Questions, Reality, Religious, Silence, Words)

"It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it."
- Robert Stone
(Related: Country, Name)

"I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner."
- Robert Stone