John Shirley

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help…

— John Shirley

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

— John Shirley

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”

— John Shirley

“Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their…

— John Shirley

“The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.”

— John Shirley

“When you serve a beer-cock an ear.”

— John Shirley

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

— John Shirley

“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…

— John Shirley

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are…

— John Shirley

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

— John Shirley

“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

“He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied…

— John Shirley

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

— John Shirley

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

— John Shirley

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

— John Shirley

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature;…

— John Shirley

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

— John Shirley

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get…

— John Shirley

“No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan”

— John Shirley

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

— John Shirley

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company…

— John Shirley

“Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming…

— John Shirley

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

— John Shirley

Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become…

— John Shirley