# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Neveryon

> Life is hard for everyone, and we must not take credit ourselves for the little that others can do with theirs. Rather look instead to whom we can give credit, if not thanks, for what little we have been able to do with our own.

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Flight from Neveryon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/flight-from-neveryon.md)
- Page: 134
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Flight_from_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/flight-from-neveryon/life-is-hard

## More from this book

> I felt, and still feel, that it is important for fantasy to have a grasp of the complexity of fact, if not of factual content.

p. 372 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/flight-from-neveryon/i-felt-and.md)

> But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.

p. 302 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/flight-from-neveryon/but-as-soon.md)

> The audience’s performance is always more or less stochastic.

p. 336 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/flight-from-neveryon/the-audiences-performance.md)