364 Quotes by Charles Stross

There’s a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it’s just inhaled three tons of snuff.

I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

There’s a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city.

Superman, Iron Man, Batman” – Flyaway Hair winces visibly – “you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.

Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.

I shake my head. The EQUESTRIAN.

You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It’s one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American – I’m sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I’m quite out of touch with what’s going on in UK publishing.

I’m not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.