Purdom Quotes & Sayings

17And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. — Anonymous

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period. — Michael Swanwick

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record. — Asif Ali Zardari

Is the game plan you are currently running the most direct path to your destiny? — Josh Linkner

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. — Dalai Lama

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley. — Gardner Dozois

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television
bar none! — Al Michaels

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony. — D.R. Hedge

There was a typhoon the day you were born ... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a particularly tempestuous fate. You always believe you are right, and this makes you do things you shouldn't ... You're a Dragon, and of all the signs only a Dragon can tame the fates. Only a Dragon can wear all the horns of destiny, duty, and power. Your sister is merely a Sheep ... — Lisa See