Quotes by : Michael Swanwick

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption....

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood....

I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the....

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly....