George Alec Effinger

“Information is a weapon. You can't have it lying around.”

“We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”

“The only real freedom is the freedom from desire.”

“It isn't what a man knows, but what he thinks he knows that he'll die for.”

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

“There is nothing more dangerous than a frightened man.”

“Everything is true... Everything anybody has ever thought.”

“When you've got a killer on your trail, you don't have a lot of time for pity.”

“Faith is a wonderful thing, but it's not a substitute for knowing what the hell you're doing.”