# Quote — Robert Silverberg, Hot Times in Magma City

> I don't know, Mattison thinks. That’s cool. I don't know, and I hereby give myself permission not to know, and to hell with it.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [Hot Times in Magma City](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/hot-times-in-magma-city.md)
- Page: 104
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#Hot_Times_in_Magma_City_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/hot-times-in-magma-city/i-dont-know

## More from this book

> The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/hot-times-in-magma-city/the-denizens-of-citizens.md)