John Varley

"It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living."

"This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases."

"What they had going certainly came as near as anyone ever has in this imperfect world to a sane, rational way for people to exist without warfare and with a minimum of politics. In the end, those two …"

"I am vehemently anti-religion. That is, organized religion. I despise them all. I try to despise them equally, but lately Islam has shot to the top of my hate list, for obvious reasons. I don’t give a…"

"We’ve become a race of engineers. What we never seem to understand is that after it’s time to railroad, there’s time to build a beautiful railroad. The state of the art has advanced enough; we can aff…"

"Religion and science don’t mix well, as science likes to observe and draw conclusions—to learn, in other words—and religion cares only about learning the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, etc. They don’t n…"

"Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless."

"Buildings were just the world's furniture, and he didn't care how it was arranged."