Quotes from Warren Ellis

That's how the future always arrives: you don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead?

So how are you going to stop me? I stopped you two minutes ago, look down.

He could be a wise man of the woods, spoken of in whispers, his words and thoughts becoming spooky action at a distance in the world beyond. A secret wizard of the future.

Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient [. . .] Supermodern spaces. Places to go through. And now look at this bloody city [Los Angeles]. Two hundred thousand fucking miles of road. Not even a city. A dozen towns stitched together by motorways.

Murder increases happiness.

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

But, as much as I will miss these lakes and fields of the Now, it's time to go. Time for another great adventure. Because if I stay here, there will surely be no more and I couldn't bear that.

Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid.

Nature isn't still. Nature is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, just like the rest of us. It's winds and floods and rain and quakes. A huge part of human history is about us just trying to survive the speed of nature.

life. You gave up on the book and the job and the money to save my life. I could fall in love with you." I've

I've said I love you when I've meant it, and I've said I love you when it was the right thing to say, and I've said I love you when saying anything else would have hurt someone without reason. And I couldn't say a word, there in the dark.

He drifted out the door like a handful of black feathers cast on a winter's breeze.

Big old fat naked naked dead guy flopped over a vacuum cleaner that was still chewing on his dick. This is my life, Trix.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.

It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon.

I don't want to kill her. But then I don't want to shit and eat. But in the order to live I have to do it.

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

He took a deep breath and got a noseful of sun-warmed dog shit for his trouble.

take gets beamed back to our servers and skimmed by an algorithm reader, which is a piece of software that's maybe as smart as a puppy. It sits up and barks when something really unusual happens in its field of vision.

Adam's entire life felt like lead in his bones right now.

a giant capable of circumcising redwoods with his teeth...

Come on," said the Director. "You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have done this.