"If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa."
- Grant Morrison
"He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato."
"May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Bal..."
"If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean."
"I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies."
"Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams."
"Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make..."
"But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas."
"We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extincti..."
"It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself."