“She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.” — John Varley Copy Share Image
“He was an extraordinarily ugly person, Lilo thought, with the ugliness that only caricature can achieve. As repulsive as a twisted, stunted ghost from… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“The public had an endless appetite for stories like that. Subconsciously, I think they think the gods of luck will favor them when the… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“There is a certain concentrated, avid-for-blood look that appears on the faces of reporters on the trail of a very big story that you'd… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“But I don’t believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“river burial had a certain rustic poetry, but Ophion cared not at all about preserving the decency of the dead. The river deposited Psaltery… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t around, and I guess if I had been, I would have been part of the oppressor class and think it was the… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher life forms… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“Gas chamber, gallows. Electric chair, stake, firing squad. Hang by the neck till you’re dead, dead, dead, and may God recycle your soul.” — John Varley Copy Share Image
“All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“no matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven’t been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.” — John Varley Copy Share Image
“If it’s not worth making beautiful,” Valiha said, “it’s not worth making.” — John Varley Copy Share Image
