171 Quotes by Bruce Sterling

"Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes."

"Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in Medieval France. It was the long-forgotten bottom of the heap, allied with the formerly feeble top, to scare the hell out of the arrogant and divisive middle."

"Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it."

"One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism."

"Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act."

"«“So, Sally, what’s new around here?”“Jeff Bezos just sold off two million shares.”“So, why would our sci-fi paperback bookseller need to sell that much Amazon stock?”“I think Jeff needs the cash for his private space rocket.”»"

"Gene replacement therapy--they tell me it really hurts.It always hurts... It all hurts. Everything hurts. For as long as you can still feel it."

"Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God.""I remember.""I was wrong, darling. Being God is better."

"And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing..."

"A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs"