Pat Cadigan

Quotes

1. Meditation was such a loose term; you can do almost anything mentally and call it meditation.

   p. 35

2. 

   Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’

   p. 57

3. 

   Truth and information are not the same thing!

   p. 180

4. 

   The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.

   p. 93

5. 

   I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

   p. 89

6. 

   I said, What are you, a federal employee or just a freelance zombie?

   p. 105

7. 

   “Is that the way you feel about it?” I asked.

   “I’m a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it.”

   p. 42

8. 

   Old responses live long, die hard, and frequently leave a troublesome corpse.

   p. 245

9. 

   Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.

   p. 13

10. 

    Help him by helping him resist your help.

    p. 249

11. 

    “‘Truth is cheap, but information costs.’ I can’t remember who said that.”

    “Vince What’s-His-Name,” said Sam. “Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.”

    “It should. It isn’t. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.”

    “Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.

    p. 52

12. 

    It gets tricky here, but it’s always seemed to be that sanity is, or can be, as relative as anything else. Sacrifice an animal to Zeus and predict the future from the formation of its entrails—do that as a general in ancient Greece hoping for victory in a coming battle and you’re prudent. Do it today and you’re a clinical paranoid and a mean one, too. Sanity, like customs and manners, seems to have a strong basis in the accepted standards of a particular time and place.

    p. 278