John Shirley Quotes

Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.

He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self esteem, because he wasn't good at it.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb

Bob [Sachs] is not the only client who wants a more finished look. People from out of state still see the 'Old West,' mining-camp look as new and exciting, but most don't want splinters [from unfinished wood] in their houses. The taste is more grown-up.

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to.

Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to ... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like sleepwalkers. They're not really awake, though they think they are. And sleepwalkers are easily lead. That's why we have to fight so hard. Because it never quite goes away.

The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.

When you serve a beer-cock an ear.

So you see, a man's history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion.

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb
if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.