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.

"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."

Fusion power we licked; static cling has us on the ropes. It’s a funny world.

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.”

“‘Truth is cheap, but information costs.’ I can’t remember who said that.”
“Vince What’s-His-Name,” said Sam. “Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.”
“It should. It isn’t. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.”
“Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.

If fasting really had anything to do with enlightenment then millions of people throughout the ages had died of the secret of life. And the secret of life was, in its entirety, that starvation hurt like a bastard.

I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

Meditation was such a loose term; you can do almost anything mentally and call it meditation.

It gets tricky here, but it’s always seemed to be that sanity is, or can be, as relative as anything else. Sacrifice an animal to Zeus and predict the future from the formation of its entrails—do that as a general in ancient Greece hoping for victory in a coming battle and you’re prudent. Do it today and you’re a clinical paranoid and a mean one, too. Sanity, like customs and manners, seems to have a strong basis in the accepted standards of a particular time and place.

The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.

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.

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

Help him by helping him resist your help.

Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.

Truth and information are not the same thing!