25 Quotes by Michael Swanwick

The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. –.

Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.

Lucky for you, you don’t need to worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.

Art should be beautiful, not ugly. It should be uplifting and redemptive. Art reassures us that life is good and that, however bad things may look at the moment, everything works out for the best in the end.

It almost sounds sensible when you say it,” Prince First-Born Splendor said. “Even though I know better.

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.