"That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding."

-- Paul Di Filippo

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Asking Quotes

“I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.”
“The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.”
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes â€“ something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean huntersâ€™ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”

Source : "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.
“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.”
“The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.”
“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.”
“Really, how bad is eating a piece of cake? Being bad is murdering someone. That's bad. Don't do that.”
“I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.”

You may also like:

Bruce Sterling
Author
Gregory Benford
Fictioneer
James Patrick Kelly
Fictioneer
Jeff VanderMeer
Writer
John C. Wright
Writer
John Shirley
Writer
Michael Swanwick
Author
Rudy Rucker
Computer Scientist
William S. Burroughs
Novelist