Pat Cadigan Quotes

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

That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.

“‘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.

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.

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.”

Old responses live long, die hard, and frequently leave a troublesome corpse.

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.

Truth and information are not the same thing!

If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.

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

"Truth and information are not the same thing. I promise you that's a fact."
"So you told yourself. But you have to admit that they do coincide often enough to let us all get around in the world safely."

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

I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.

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.