Blue Champagne Quotes

“They eat the sewage that floats on the surface of the mass culture, digest it, and then get creative diarrhea--all at once. The turd look and smell exactly alike, and we call them this year's fashions, hit shows, books, and movies.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Galloway gave her a truly feral grin, and for a moment did not look tired at all. Bach realized she loved this sort of intrigue, love playing fast and loose, taking chances.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“They regarded each other uneasily. Bach knew that gratitude could equal resentment. She thought she could see some of that in Galloway’s eyes. But there was determination, too. Megan Galloway paid her debts. She had been paying one to Q.M. Cooper for ten years.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“We seem to be a cultural impasse. I feel I owe you a lot, and you say it’s nothing.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“The sight would remain with her, and not just in memory. For days afterward her vision was scored with a spiderweb of purple lines.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Her voice was drowned out by the sound every Lunarian dreads: the high, haunting shriek of escaping air.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Bach wandered the electric wonderland, helmet in hand.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Bach protested at first, but Galloway would not be denied, and Bach’s resistance was at a low ebb.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“These are the people who own the companies that make the food you’ve been eating all your life. They pay the chemists who formulate the glop-of-the-month, they hire the advertising agencies who manufacture a demand for it, and they bank the money the proles pay for it. They do everything with it but eat it.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Blue Champagne Enterprises trusts you will not impede the taping, and regrets any disturbance.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“Megan Galloway arrived in the Bubble with a camera crew of three. With her breather and her sidekick she was the least naked nude woman any of the lifeguards had ever seen.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne

“She shrugged. “Some of it used to cause problems, like cancer. Most of it’s not very nutritious. They watched for carcinogens, but that’s because a consumer with cancer eats less. As for nutrition, the more air the better. My rule of thumb is if they have to flog the stuff on television it has to be bad.”
― John Varley, Blue Champagne