Joan D. Vinge Quotes

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.