74 quotes found
Author · British · 1965
British author
“You love life because life's all there is.”
“Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.”
“The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.”
“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”
“Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psy...”
“Its why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldnt have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.”
“Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one.Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows...”
“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
“How was the light today?Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The skys blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someones hand was pulling it, very ge...”
“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.”
“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lous...”
“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.”
“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”
“All vampires smoke. Smokings high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.”
“Its Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.”
“... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.”
“We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.”
“Theres a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but its really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of m...”
“It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible...”
“Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.”
