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William Barton (writer)

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William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer.

Quotes

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When We Were Real (1999)

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All page numbers are from the mass market paperback first edition published by Warner Books (Aspect), ISBN 0-446-60706-1
  • Thinking about death’s a funny thing. Stupid. Like wondering where you were before you were born.
    • Chapter 1 (p. 17)
  • There’s always a moment of transition for you, that one moment when you turn from outsider to in, when you leave your past behind and suddenly mesh with the new life you’ve joined.
    • Chapter 3 (p. 64)
  • Human society begins with what nature makes male and female mammals want from each other.
    • Chapter 3 (p. 69)
  • Well, that happens in fairy tales, doesn’t it? In real life, when a manager fucks up and ruins a million working people’s lives, when he bungles so badly the company loses a decade’s profits, his Christmas bonus turns up a little short. That’s all.
    • Chapter 4 (p. 76)
  • Risk meaningless death at the hands of a soulless corporate entity?
    Hmmm. How much are they paying?
    • Chapter 5 (p. 101)
  • A woman’s laughter can charm a man out of his senses.
    • Chapter 7 (p. 170)
  • Seduction’s so easy when its target has the same object in mind.
    • Chapter 8 (p. 186)
  • War, they say, is just business conducted through other means.
    • Chapter 11 (p. 252)
  • That’s all I remember, really. We fly around. I shoot the guns. The explosions are pretty. People die. What the hell are they fighting for? Freedom? What the hell is that?
    You’re born out of nothing. You live for a while. You die. You go back to nothing.
    What kind of fool dies for a word?
    A better class of fool than the one who dies for a paycheck?
    Don’t know.
    • Chapter 12 (p. 262)
  • Idle relics of the past. Things that let us imagine we’ve lived, when nothing else remains.
    • Chapter 14 (p. 332)
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