Steven > Steven's Quotes

“Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this.”
― Christopher Fowler

“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”
― James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss

“We think we move, we run, we push forward, but, I think, in many ways we are still running in place, trapped in a moment that happened to us long ago.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream.”
― Rebecca Ore, Slow Funeral

“Leave it to the Americans to use love as a motivational tool while challenging insects to declare whether they are with you or against you.”
― Taiyo Fujii, Gene Mapper

“I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.”
― Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

“memory will cut you off at the knees if you let it.”
― James Sallis, Others of My Kind

“Every innovation—technological, sociological, or otherwise—begins as a crusade, organizes itself into a practical business, and then, over time, degrades into common exploitation.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside