Quotes from K.J. Parker

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.

War is an admission of failure

I rarely ask for suggestions, because, when I do, people tend to make them.

I like to let them talk things out, but fact isn't a democratic process; if a thing isn't true it isn't true, even if everybody votes that it is.

Of the people, by the people, for the people. I can't remember offhand where that quote comes from; it was something to do with some bunch of wild-eyed idealists overthrowing the tyrant so they could become tyrants themselves. No good will have come of it, you can be sure. The people; God help us.

The quickest way to a man`s heart,' said the instructor, 'is proverbially through his stomach. But if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye-socket.

A wise man once said, it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

I mention this because that's how the world changes. It's either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don't notice.

It's a bizarre but widespread myth that only heroes have good qualities, and the only qualities heroes have are good; villains are, by definition, all bad. Bullshit.

Libraries are the granary of the spirit, without which we could not survive the siege.

We live in a miserable world, where the best we can honestly hope for is that one empty, meaningless day will follow another without things getting actively worse.

wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

How can anyone doubt the existence of God when evidence of His sense of humour surrounds us on all sides?

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

Personally, I always feel that survival is cheap at any price and it puzzles me that so many men in authority don't seem to see it that way.

Memories are tricky; there's what you remember, and what you think you remember, the editions and redactions of memory, the corrections and amendations and blundered readings and the whole apparatus criticus of the conscious mind trying to make bread out of soup.

If there's one truth in this life, it's that you simply can't win. The most you can achieve is to make a nuisance of yourself, for a very short time.

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.