Quotes from Victor J. Banis

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

It doesn't matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Some people want everything for nothing.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

Tom gave him a suspicious look. "Stanley, you've never actually worked a homicide investigation, right?" "No, but how hard can it be? You collect all the clues and you put them together, and voila. I have read a lot of mystery novels.

I think this guy's dead," the coroner said, scooting another inch or two, to be safe. "There's something wrong here," Tom said. They both looked at him. "No, I'm pretty sure of it," the coroner said. "That bullet hole, for one thing. Plus, he's not breathing. That's the kind of thing we look for.

Queers make the best monks.

Lust, plain and simple - if lust was ever simple.

The thing is," Tom said, "I won't come." "Just to spoil my fun? Or you think you're still too weak?

You couldn't hide that friendly giant from somebody rimming your butthole.

To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.

Claude's mother could be frightfully stubborn once she made up her mind to something. In her own way Anne was as private a person as little David; in the end she would do exactly what she wanted to do.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point of education, of meditation and prayer. The more one lifts oneself up, the more of the pattern he is able to make out, though only an enlightened few have a perspective lofty enough to see the outline whole.

It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

What's that shit?" "Bubbles. It's a bubble bath." "Jesus H. Christ, I can't take a bubble bath. What'll people think? If anybody found out I was taking bubble baths…" "Well, why don't you climb into the tub and I'll go fight off the paparazzi, okay?