“Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like sleepwalkers. They're not really awake, though they think they are. And sleepwalkers are easily lead. That's… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
