Greg Egan Quotes

It all adds up to normality.

Isn't that what the Peerless is for? Anything too difficult for the home world?

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection.

Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

He turned back to face them. 'I do make sense to you, don't I? I'm not just imagining that communication is taking place?

He'd never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists?

It was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group

Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself.

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me.

It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.

Rakesh said, 'What do the Aloof think we can do with this, that they can't do themselves?' 'Give a damn?' Parantham suggested.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life. Kate

This was her last chance at the closest thing to freedom: her will, her actions, and the outcome in the world could all be in harmony.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

Often when she thought she was reading his body

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way?

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

I said, 'The truth is whatever you can get away with.' 'No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties.

As he walked past shops and teahouses he could still

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

Is a stranger in a crowd less than human, just because you can't witness her inner life?

If you want to make it human, make it whole.

Order my life. I'm nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole.

All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.

Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.