“I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It s like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn t have to take these drastic measures.”
“Muses are the Mata Haris of inspiration.”
“WICKED is good”
“That’s Vegan not Vulcan!”
“Having forgotten how insanely chaotic the Central Bazaar in the Merchant Sector can get, he is instantly reminded just how exciting it is.”
“I take it that no animal has been mistreated, harmed, mutilated or brutally murdered in the making of this banquet?”
“I like what you’ve done to the place,’ he says, eyeing the ripped fabric and scorched stuffing hanging from the ceiling and walls.”
“He licked my face, sir.”
“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”
“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest. In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
“You live on an island, surrounded by the ocean, and you don’t like seafood?” “Yes, the irony is not lost on me.”
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled science fiction ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
“Never tell a computer to forget it.”
“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone s wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”
“Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.”
“No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.”
“A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he s something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun”