Quotes from Richard Kadrey

Black is a good color anytime you're flinging around blood.

When it's true love you know why you're getting stabbed.

But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive.

I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off.

And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they're pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny.

The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.

She'd [Allegra] look like Foxy Brown's little sister, except her head is SHAVED SMOOTH.

He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips.

Let me tell you, having cancer sucks, but being broke and having cancer is the shittiest fate that can land on a human being.

So, what happens next to a couple of outlaws like us, hopped up on caffeine and sugar, and on the lam?" "I figure it's a lot like Badlands," said Spyder. "We leaver here, get a ride and go straight to Hell.

All are equal in the grave.

Hell, boy. At some point, all fathers want to kill their sons. Just like all sons think about killing their old man. They're too much alike or they're not enough alike. It doesn't matter. What's beautiful is that they don't do it.

The lucky among us might get the same deal as Dysmas. Dysmas was one of the thieves crucified next to Christ. When he asked for forgiveness, Christ said, 'Today you will be with me in paradise.' " Candy

That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell." "Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno.

Everyone in the world is a Charlie. The trick is to figure out which Charlie you're going to be. Charlie Manson. Charlie Starkweather. Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "Charlie Chaplin." "Charlie Parker." "Charly… from Flowers for Algernon." "Charlie Brown.

They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls.

It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?

I never liked Michael, and since he tried to kill me, I like him even less.

Every time stupid rich people get ripped off, it makes them feel better about hating poor people.

My back feels like someone beat me with a pillowcase full of tuna-fish cans.

You murder someone at the Ice Capades and the place goes apeshit. You blow someone's head off in a war zone, people step over the body and have a snack.

Fear is like curling up under a warm blanket for some people, especially the rich.

Yes, there are vampires. Try to keep up.

Oh God, look what you did." "God's away on business, Kas. Talk to me.