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1 " Do you realize that all great literature — " Moby Dick," " Huckleberry Finn," " A Farewell to Arms," " The Scarlet Letter," " The Red Badge of Courage," " The Iliad and The Odyssey," " Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and " The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being? "
2 " You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better than what I do, instead of going on a bummer right away and saying, “Oh Christ, I’m obsolete, I’m outdated, I’ve lost it.” I have this tremendous sense of joy. I don’t have to write all the great goddamn science fiction in the world. Somebody else is going to carry this torch. It’s such a relief to sit with my feet up on the wall and to know that if I never wrote another book science fiction is going ahead. "
― Philip K. Dick
3 " No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times. "
