# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Neveryon

> Origins are always constructs, always contouring ideological agendas.

- 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: 368
- 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/origins-are-always

## 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)