Adam-Troy Castro Quotes

Any messages?"
Oscin said, "Just a lot of people dreading whatever you plan to do next.

Talent’s cheap…historically, one of the cheapest things you can buy. And considering the sheer amount of angst you carry around on your back, you need it. After all, angst from a Talented person is fascinating; angst from a Common Everyday Nobody is just an annoyance.

When you get to the core of it, we’re all aliens to one another, raised according to some common precepts but otherwise ruled by paradigms far removed from those of the people around us. The tragedy is that we tend to judge others by standards that may make perfect sense to us but which are most likely totally irrelevant to them.

You know what murder investigators call the ex-lover who says the dead woman slept around?"
"I think I can guess."
"The most likely suspect.

In short, they were like the complacent everywhere: in that they were already dead, and did not yet happen to know it…

Management’s never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management’s true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management.

The question is, just how do we tackle this problem? Do we merely modulate your Ego so it's less irritating? Admittedly, that might make you easier to take – but it won't address the real core of the problem, which is that when all is said and done you really don't have a lot to be egotistical about."
"That can't be true! My Haiku alone –"
"First rule of human social interaction, Mr. Porter: If you have to lead with Haiku, you've already lost.

There was never any shortage of Despair; it had always been far more common than hope, and there was always more being manufactured, everywhere in the universe. That was what made it such a convenient, and inexhaustible, Fuel.

Art isn’t just technique, in any culture…it’s also Content. It’s understanding not just How, but also What, to express.

Cottonmouth was the kind of small town that hugs its knees to its chest and shuts out all evidence of a greater world beyond.

They all wore the slack-bored expression of folks doomed to spend all of eternity on an infinitely long supermarket checkout line.

It was the sort of platitude-laden gibberish that people learn to repeat so they can imagine themselves clever without ever bothering to think an original thought themselves.

It was nobody’s idea of luxurious travel, but then I’d known luxurious travel once or twice in my life and found that it just got me to places at the same speed while forcing me to interact with the kind of people who could afford such passage.

Are you refusing a direct order?"
"Tell me to die for no good reason and I'll do more than refuse, I'll shove the order up your ass.

What do you think about their position? Do you think it's right for sentient creatures to be owned?"
He emitted a short, cynical laugh, driven by the kind of anger that drives entire lives. "We're all owned, Counselor. It's just a matter of choosing who holds the deed.