Caitlín R. Kiernan Quotes
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.
I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.
All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.
You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she already knows that she is!
I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.
Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.
You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.
I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.