Quotes from Simon R. Green

you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Passwords are for wimps, too," said Melody. "You have to know how to talk to these things. Okay... They started the latest drug trial last evening. Code name, Zarathustra. Oh, shit. That is not good. Whenever some scientist starts quoting Nietzsche, you know it is never going to be good.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

Nostalgia for old fictions is the strongest nostalgia of all.

They're currently sulking, by the way, and comforting themselves by sending abusive e-mails to Bill Gates.

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

They say you can't go home again, but you can if you carry a big enough stick.

It was years since I'd last been here, a lifetime. It was yesterday.

I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds.

A vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and from the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.

Poison! Poison gasses, you idiot! Defend yourself! Eat the celery! I thrust a numbing hand into an inside coat pocket, pulled out the piece of celery, and chewed on it. I always keep a piece handy, pre-prepared with all kinds of useful substances, for just such occasions as this. It tasted bitter as I chewed, but it cleared my head rapidly. It's an old trick but a good one, taught me long ago by a Travelling Doctor I met at the Hawk's Wind Bar & Grill.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

Sorry," I said. But I've been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can't wear anything good, in case I develop style.

And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering…that the world can't take away from you.

I had to smile. "How can you not approve of gods when you are one?" He sniffed. "I never asked to be worshipped. Feared, yes." "That's how most religions start. Eddie, the Street is in danger, and so am I.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

No Tax on Liquor(also known as the Who's for a Party Party)

Would you really have...?" said Julien. "Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures." "But you are one!" "I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.

Love conquers all," murmured Kim. "I heard it in a song, so it must be true.

What am I going to do with all these bodies?" Said Jimmy, just a bit plaintively."I can't keep them, I don't have the cupboard space.

I want a gun, Happy said immediately. "A really big gun. I want a fully functioning Death Star gun." "Not even if Godzilla himself were to show up," said JC.

I've never been good at puzzles. When you wear a suit of armour that can punch holes through the world, mostly you don't have to be. Other people will normally fall all over themselves to tell you everything you need to know. The Somnambulist started to snore quietly. Walker