Quotes from Warren Ellis

Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.

I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.

That's what you should be worrying about. Idiots with all the money, plowing it into building a thing just because they can.

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see?

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.

None of it seemed real. He laughed at Mount Hood, capped with silvered white in the middle of summer. Who paints a frosted mountaintop into a summer scene? What a ridiculous failure of reality. He stopped laughing when he remembered it was a failure of reality that put him in this car in the first place, and was quiet for a long time.

There was a push, in the Sixties and Seventies, to rename science fiction as "speculative fiction" just to try and escape all that baggage. But the truth is that science fiction is like a big old pustule that burst open at the top of the 21st Century, and its muck got into everything. We now live in a world infused with science fiction. Little infections in everything.

Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti.

That's the future. City-states rammed with again people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.

That's the future. City-states rammed with aging people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.

Okay. I've either reinvented the solar panel or I've made something for seagulls to fuck in.

Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up. Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is.

People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say. Someone said, I fucking told you

constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science.

Spider Jerusalem: You want to go out to dinner sometime? Hannah Enkidu: Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry,infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.

An expression crept over Asher's face that was not unlike that of a lonely child being told that Santa had not in fact been strangled to death in an alley in New Orleans

I didn't want to find out that instead of getting my powers from a transcendent scientist-mentor, I was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets! I didn't even know Hitler had personal sex midgets!

He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The

Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory.

You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me, and feeding and clothing me and all... -- and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to do and sometimes I just want to scream -- and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head -- I go through all this -- and then there's death ??

I know what moves you're preparing to make. I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways. I can hit you without you even seeing me.... I'm what soldiers dream of growing into. I'm what children see when they first imagine what death is like. I'm The Midnighter.