Heavy Weather Quotes

“Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“A pictorial record of his hopes and despairs would have looked like a fever chart.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“What is money? Fairy gold. That’s what it is. Dead Sea fruit.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“the perfect unruffled peace which in this world seems to come only to those who have done nothing whatever to deserve it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“It would have pained the immaculate Monty, could he have known that his prospective employer was picturing him at the moment as furtive, shifty-eyed, rat-like person of the gangster, type, liable at the first opportunity to sneak into the sties of innocent pigs and plant pineapple bombs in their bran-mash.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“We’ll never truly be happy or safe, never. Never, ever.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“Jane hoped that it had all turned out okay for the woman in the end, and that she’d been nice and dead and buried before she realized what her way of life had done to her planet.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“In fact, Jane kind of hoped that the twentieth-century heiress had really enjoyed herself as she thoughtlessly squandered the planet’s resources and lived like a fattened barnyard animal.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“but they’d have a cheap laptop and some big chunk of the Library, and they’d crouch under a culvert with it, and peck around on it and fly around in it and read stuff and annotate it and hypertext it, and then they’d come up with some pathetic, shattered, crank, loony, paranoid theory as to what the hell had happened to them and their planet…. It almost beat drugs for turning smart people into human wreckage.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“truly elegant design that people always use when they make things to kill each other.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“You could tell that the plant life here wasn’t at all used to the kindness of rain. The plants weren’t a bit better than humanity, really—just another ugly, nasty, acquisitive species, born to suffer, and expecting little.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“Every man who by his own unaided efforts has succeeded in wresting a great fortune from a resistant world has something of the buccaneer in him, a touch of the practical, Do-It-Now pirate of the Spanish Main.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather

“All workable standards of wealth had vaporized, digitized, and vanished into a nonstop hurricane of electronic thin air.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“But old people usually seemed pretty embarrassed to bring up such matters right in front of young people. Probably because of the inherent implication that the world’s old people were ecological criminals.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“Remember, people, a spike is a passing thing, but a lawsuit you always have with you. Over.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“Gene replacement therapy--they tell me it really hurts.

It always hurts... It all hurts. Everything hurts. For as long as you can still feel it.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, drunk in a bar. We're professionals, for Christ's sake, and she's just a prole.”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing...”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather