Ed Rich > Ed's Quotes

“Oh no,” Ximenyr said, looking almost serious. “One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?"
"Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would not understand, so I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

“And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore...."

"What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child.

"Nothing," she said, getting to her feet. "Just an old preHegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes-even 1400 years ago.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“You’re upsetting a delicate balance of corruption that has existed here for centuries.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Aristoi

“Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.”
― John Varley, Demon

“It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Under the California desert and subsidized by the taxpayers' money, someone had finally invented a chain letter that really worked. A very lethal chain letter.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Choose again.”
― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

“I love being a poet. It’s the goddamned words I can’t stand.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“My days were but heartbeats to you. I hated you for that.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“however confused my religious notions have become these days, they do not include the worship of an organic killing machine.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“I explored religions and serious drinking, finding more hope of lasting solace in the latter.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“he looked like an escapee from a reeducation camp for fashion criminals.”
― Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise

“Behold the wedding gun,’ the Ordinator said, holding the box aloft.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“You can’t kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”
― Stephen King, Firestarter

“Oh, I’m not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984