691 Quotes by Neal Stephenson

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.

The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?