158 Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

You smoke?” “Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?

What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.

No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.

It's no time here. I am time here. I am all the time you need.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

It's always far easier to murder and tear down than it is to build and educate. Easier to let power accumulate than diffuse.

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.