Michael Swanwick Quotes

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

Perfection is death, ' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.