“I’m decrepit, but I ain’t senile.”

John Varley

“I thought his lack of curiosity must be monumental, but I was wrong. It turned out that he had some queer notions about the morality of the whole process, ideas he had gotten from some weirdly aberran...”

John Varley

“It’s unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.”

John Varley

“There were worlds in the jewel. There was ancient Barsoom of my childhood fairy tales; there was Middle Earth with brooding castles and sentient forests. The jewel was a window on something unimaginab...”

John Varley

“Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless.”

John Varley