“ I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupid, if you were careless, if you were lazy, but the real danger was the people around you. The moon w… Ian McDonald
“ We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. Ian McDonald
“ Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives. Ian McDonald
“ It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the Devourer of Worlds, but in the end he's just a dude.… Ian McDonald
“ This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint. Ian McDonald
“ The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road. Ian McDonald
“ A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home to Mullaghbrack or Gortyfarnham or half a hundred other BallyBogMans, two farmers fall to reviewing t… Ian McDonald
“ No one noticed them step off the train, no one saw them arrive in Desolation Road . . . . Then something very much like a sustained explosion of light filled the hotel and there, at the epicenter of t… Ian McDonald
“ You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with n… Ian McDonald
“ He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it. Ian McDonald
