Steven Barnes
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Biography
Steven Barnes is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screenplays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles.
"Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?"
"Marketing is finding women who like sex or would like to find out if they do. Sales is convincing them that they want to go home with YOU, right NOW."
"The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit."
"And your life is ruined because you tried to do the Right Thing. Join the club honey—guess what, there are a few more of us out here who’ve had our brains beaten our with our own dreams."
"I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed."
"Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap."
"Definitions are just words, just labels. And once you label something, the label gets between you and the thing."
"“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.”"
"The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do."
"Aubry looked at her without shifting his head. Damn, she was lovely. An unpleasant question remained: What where they to each other? It was hard to say sometimes. Did he truly feel love, or just the effects of the Cyloxibin mushroom? And was there a difference?"
"He had no choice. And that one thing turned Heaven into Hell."
"Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's."