All Richard K. Morgan Quotes
- For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars… All
- It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. Death
- Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there… Already Lost
- If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand,… Account
- Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough. Inspirational
- Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. Behavior
- I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read… Adult
- I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true. Bit
- I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. Accused
- Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It… Bashing
- Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching… Abroad
- I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much… Any
- In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like… Chill
- Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the… Care
- Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is… Black
- War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will… Any
- A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Atheism
- We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be? All
- A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy,… Breathlessly
- The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. Device