Chris Berko > Chris's Quotes

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.”
― John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

“Self knowledge is always bad news.”
― John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair”
― J B Priestley

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Narnok rolled his shoulders and tilted his head left, then right, with terrifying cracks of released tension. The two men at his feet were groaning at different pitches, and Narnok stepped over them, testing the weight of the bar and muttering, “Not as good as the axe, but it’ll do.” He looked up. And grinned. “What’s it to be, then? Two at a time or all six at once?”
― Andy Remic, The Iron Wolves

“These aren’t accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.”
― Phyllis Rose

“Blew up? How?’ ‘We dropped a shielded runcible gate into it while the gate at the other end was moved into position before a stream of near-light-speed asteroids flung out from a spinning black hole.”
― Neal Asher, War Factory

“—I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary.
—I think we really like books that make us hate ourselves.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.”
― Robert Sheckley

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
― Roald Dahl

“Have faith, you miserable git," the Burned Man said. "Where there's a will there's a way, and all that. You have made a will, haven't you?”
― Peter McLean, Drake

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“Life will find a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“How many millennia had she witnessed? Watching people, loved ons, be bron, live, grow and die was at once a thought of wonder and infinite sadness.”
― G.R. Matthews, The Red Plains