Pat Cadigan Quotes

There were those who insisted this had already happened, but they could never come up with any solid examples, only vague stories involving the cousin of a daughter of a friend-of-a-friend who overheard someone on an all-night bus telling someone else about it.

Truth and information are not the same thing!

And that vulgar gold lamé upholstery giving me a rash. You can dispute taste but you can’t stop it.

Fez gave her a squeeze. “You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.” She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. “It just makes sense, is all.”
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”

If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.

Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.

He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.

Help him by helping him resist your help.

If a dataline is running and there’s no one there to watch it, has anything really happened?

"Is that the way you feel about it?" I asked.
"I'm a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it."

If you need someone to believe something, make them go for a walk with you. Walking takes up most of the energy they’d use to disbelieve you.

Some people gain freedom by trading one form of bondage for another.

I said, What are you, a federal employee or just a freelance zombie?

Technology disgusts me. My senses tell me what I need to know. The rest is noise.

Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.