Michael Marshall Smith Quotes

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes—God.