James Gunn > Quotes

“God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.”
― James Gunn, The Toy Collector

“These things are never easy, and you take them to your grave.”
― James Gunn

“There's no way of getting away from the noises of the city when the noises of the city are in your head.”
― James Gunn, The Toy Collector

“The laws of classical physics are statistical; the unpredictable, individual atom enjoys free will....”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“There is no god that's why I stepped in.”
― James Gunn

“We are Groot.”
― James Gunn

“Because sometimes, you see, even your life means something to somebody.”
― James Gunn, The Toy Collector

“She had the look. it didn't have anything to do with brains or taste or character. It had to do with how you saw history, the history of the world around you and the history of yourself. It had to do with a longing for innocence.”
― James Gunn, The Toy Collector

“he had seen the stars connected by a network of nerves, and it was like that again. Not just the stars, it was all mankind, linked together by consequence and compulsion. Intangible, untraceable, almost moral: the smallest event on the most distant edge of the Empire affected everyone in the Empire.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“no matter how far apart people seem, there is a bridge that joins them all.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“Freedom.... How much is it worth? As much as anyone can pay and sometimes a little more. And even then no man can own it clear or bequeath it to his children.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“There were other things Horn heard: No man can act alone; he is bound up in humanity. No man suffers alone; humanity suffers with him. Injustice to one is injustice to all; every man should resent it as if it happened to him; it did.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“He squared his shoulders and stepped purposefully onto the first strip, his eyes watchful. Brilliant light drew his eyes to the left. Above a glowing, multicolored door, were wriggling letters. They spelled out: THE PLEASURE WORLDS. As Horn stepped to a faster strip, they were gone behind him.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge

“A wise man,” Wu said softly, “never believes anything completely until he has tested it for himself.”
― James Gunn, Star Bridge