Quotes by Warren Ellis

“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment buildings stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step hel...”

“Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.Build an eye.”

“The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.”

“The best gifts are never given, but claimed.”

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

“Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehend and experience things like... vengeance, for instance. Or terror. Loss. Hate. Hate is all you ...”

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

“You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I'm mo...”

“You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!”

“There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead?”

“In the long run, you see, none of that matters.I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a place where you exercise any power.In the long run, we are all three-dimensional side-effects of a two-dimen...”

“You never get tired of looking at the stars”

“The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!""You know," said Tallow, "I really hav...”

“Our guy has a property office, John. And I don't mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the huge fucking storage facility. A guy in there, with access to thousands of fucking handguns. Eve...”

“Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as...”

“If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it”

“I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills Take control of your world.”

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people...”

“I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.”

“Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his futu...”