364 Quotes by Charles Stross

The Magician’s Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

We developed differently, of course, but we all had the same problem.” The yawning hole in the center of our badly designed lives. “How can you love yourself if you can’t love somebody else?

There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.

I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don’t think I’ve ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom – off-limits if I value my life.

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That’s an 80% “piracy” rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

I set the self-portrait timer on the camera to ten seconds, handed it to the zombie, and sent him into the grid and through the door to blow himself up. Then things got weird.

It’s as exhausting as dealing with an early-stage dementia sufferer – one with a trillion-pound budget and nuclear-weapons-release authority.

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the “piracy” problem is massively over-rated.

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life – oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.