171 Quotes by Bruce Sterling

«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that he will change. A man takes a woman, expecting that she will never change. They are both disappointed. Yet within this very disappointment is the primal source of all new men and all new women»

«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.”“That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»

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.