Paul McAuley Quotes

“What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?”

“I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.”

“While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands”

“Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.”

“We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.”

“I'm sure lovely girls such as yourselves need not worry about this"—Madame LaRoche begins, and I have a hunch we're about to be cautioned against something we enjoy”

“Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.”

“Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes the Good One...A clear pre-Christian Gnosticism can be distilled from the epistles of Paul. Paul is recklessly misunderstood by those who try to read anything Historical Jesus-ish into it. The conversion of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles is a mere forgery from various Tanakh passages... [The epistles] are from Christian mystics of the middle of the second century. Paul is thus the strongest witness against the Historical Jesus hypothesis...John's Gnostic origin is more evident than that of the synoptics. Its acceptance proves that even the Church wasn't concerned with historical facts at all.”

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling”

“I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.”