64 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams

Propelled by violas and stinging electric guitar, presto followed andante, and so to finale.

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

When the work was done Gabriel would compose music for the bone trumpet, a lament for Vissarion played on an instrument made from Vissarion's femur. Vissarion would be pleased, he thought, that his remains had become music, leaping into life like Athene from the thigh of Zeus.

Here’s Daljit, Aristide’s former lady-love:“Do you still have that horrible cat?”“Yes, said Bitsy. “He does.”“I didn’t know you were here,” Daljit said weakly.“I lurk,” said the cat.Bitsy is not a cat-like creature to fuck around. Of one of her fellow-AIs, she says: “I’d kick Aloysius’ ass. That AI always gets my goat.

Why do I feel that ghosts are more realThan these creatures of substance and matter?Why does their song seem to drive me alongMore than humanity’s drivel and pratter?

When you revealed that the Rani was in fact the Nagi," Charlie said, "the players collectively pissed their pants.""I'd rather they creamed their jeans.

...the technology of personality transfer is imperfect--sometimes bits get left behind: memories, abilities, traits, that might be useful. A full succession of bodies can mean successive senility.

It's for us, Daud. To get us out, into the Orbitals...Where it's clean, Daud...Where we're not in the street, because there isn't a street...It'll be different. Something we haven't known. Something finer. You should see your eyes when you say that...Like you've just put a needle in your veins. Like that hope is your drug, and you're hooked on it.

The panzer, she decides, is a place only a junkie could love. A cozy cybernetic womb of masculine scent, soft blinking lights, the studs that feed one's addiction. Whatever Cowboy's is, she doesn't want to know.