John Shirley

“Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy.”

“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger feels.”

“It's hard to get a hug from a computer.”

“There's a sucker born every minute, and a lot of them go into public service.”

“The city is a machine, turning people into its components.”

“Reality is a consensus, and the consensus is crumbling.”

“Memory is a ghost, and the past is a haunted house.”

“Love is the ultimate outlaw.”

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

“The future is a dark, unlit room, and we are fumbling for the light switch.”

“Sometimes the only way to get justice is to take it.”

“Horror is not about the monster, it's about our reaction to the monster.”

“The truth is a shard of glass, and you can get cut handling it.”