Ian McDonald Quotes

I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupid, if you were careless, if you were lazy, but the real danger was the people around you. The moon was not a world, it was a submarine. Outside was death. I would be sealed in with these people. There was no law, no justice: there was only management. The moon was the frontier, but it was the frontier to nothing. There was nowhere to run.

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the Devourer of Worlds, but in the end he's just a dude. Beat him and the problem goes away. But the real problems aren't like that. You can't solve them by hitting them. The real supervillains. . . . were people in suits who met in rooms and decided things. Destroy one and another would take her place

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.