A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.
Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.
We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.