Dave Thomas > Dave's Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I’m bitter and resentful and angry, not impolite”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“Please, Dr. Maya, give me the strength to not use an emoticon. Paris Hilton is going to Heaven? This I can’t Ctrl+Alt+Fathom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“You may be excused from the table after you finish every bite of that PCP.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“College would come first, of course, but after I graduated with my degree in comparative postmodern marginalized gender studies I wanted to become mommy to a cuddly monkey baby.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“One is either born intelligent or not. The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That … that is proof of your deathless soul.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“He was a haunter of sleep, and an awakener of terrors.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

“director is the loneliest creature on God’s earth. He knows what’s good and bad in a show, or he should if he’s worth his salt, and he has to carry that information around with him and keep smiling.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

“And that face. It was wonderfully alive, the features playing the story of her speech with delicate economy.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

“She preferred her lovers twenty years Swann's junior—he looked, someone had observed, like a man in mourning for his profile, but his touch promised what no boy could offer. She”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“Whatever gets you through the night was an axiom he understood from hard experience.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“The world was full of brutal fathers and tyrannical mothers, and come to that, cruel and uncaring children. It was the way of things. She couldn’t police the species.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“If that was the way the world worked—by omens and prophecies—then it was at least a system, and she had lived too long without one. Love”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“We’re all miscast, one way or another. Just being born into this place…”
― William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration

“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven; for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Staring at the redness of a thing hid its greenness, he knew; he must look from the right point of view.”
― William Peter Blatty, Dimiter

“That’s the job, sir,” he’d said, “Getting hurt.”
― William Peter Blatty, Dimiter

“They hadn't seen the things I had seen. Their fear was the small kind, borne of uncertainty rather than dread. They stroked their shotguns and grinned with dumb innocence.”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence