Drink Quote by John Shirley

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

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 lives like…

— 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 the noise…

— John Shirley

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

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