691 Quotes by Neal Stephenson

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.