Glen Cook Quotes

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Time will unfold its leaves.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.

I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.