Quotes By Robert Stone

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.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

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.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

It's all about letting the story take over.