Greg Egan

Citations

• “"How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" / "That depends." / "On what?" / "On how I want to feel."”

• “"The truth is whatever you can get away with." / "No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape."”

• “If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.”

• “[T]hat most beings would prefer to continue to exist once they exist is not in itself a good reason for bringing them into existence, it’s merely a good argument against murder.”

• “Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”