Quotes from Glen Duncan

The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.

Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous.

can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment and a revelation and a bereavement and a new thrilling nudity. It was the basic prosaic obscenity: You kept going.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

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

Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.

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.

It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God . It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.

Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many things m full stop.

I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.

Naturally we looked at each other. Naturally the single second that passed was more than enough time to enjoy a purified intimacy, to note each other's details and feel the exact weight of each other's history. naturally our essences, peremptorily denuded, exchanged a stunned glance. Then I shot him in the face.

But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me.

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.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

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

She thought of herself wondering how he was going to breathe in the coffin and marveled at the stubbornness of mental habits.

The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities.