You can get a hell of a lot done in a popular medium just by knocking it off with the bullshit. - Bruce Sterling

The world doesn’t give a shit how noble your motives are—it’ll roll right over you. That’s how it works.

She’d read somewhere once that 90 percent of the world’s havoc was committed by men between fifteen and twenty-five.

Mortality is one good reason why I'm writing books in the first place. For God's sake don't make me keep pace with the hardware, because I'm not really in the business of keeping pace, I'm really in the business of marking place.