Al Duncan Quotes

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,

Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Nearly everyone wants as least one outstanding meal a day.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

Sin is the handle by which I get Christ, ...

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

It’s 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.

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.

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.

So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

My motto: sans limites.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you!

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.