88 quotes
Parricide can be hard to explain to the neighbors.
Elf Defense (1988)
Who obeyed the commands of ghosts except madmen?
Sphynxes Wild (1989)
She is as shallow as a leaf holding rainwater.
New York by Knight (1986)
Only a corpse could have sounded more bored.
Elf Defense (1988)
They’re never going to agree on one damned thing. You can’t make reasonable human beings out of committee members.
Elf Defense (1988)
Someone should either make the rewards of good better or the punishment of evil worse. Poor planning on a grand scale, I call it. Nothing but poor planning.
Here Be Demons (1988)
When the majority is crazy, the sane ones are kept in asylums. She knew that well; she’d majored in World History.
Here Be Demons (1988)
There are always miracles where there are children, and fascination for any tale that opens their eyes to marvels, whether or not they are sensible marvels. Even a pig knows that.
A Pig's Tale (1995)
The winter of ignorance could come, the cold stoked by a thousand bonfires. There would always be loveless souls ready to kindle such blazes with their neighbors’ books, or dreams, or children.
Hooray for Hellywood (1990)
A high-handed air of command was one of the first symptoms of increasing power-hunger.
Demon Blues (1989)
Here is what I like to do: Pretend I know what grownups are talking about.
No Children, No Pets (2010)
“What a hero!”
“What an idiot!”
“What’s the difference?”
Split Heirs (1993)
Don’t mistake gratitude for love.
Harlot's Ruse (1986)
Talent is no doxy to follow only where gold jingles. Even in the poorest hovels artists can be born as often as cutpurses.
Harlot's Ruse (1986)
Few hearts are brave enough to stand between old newspapermen and their liquor. Fewer still would defy the thirsty hordes of the electronic media.
Here Be Demons (1988)
Time had passed. It will, given half the chance.
A Pig's Tale (1995)
Should be is not is. Ignorance sees to that.
Sphynxes Wild (1989)
Little ones, if any mortal under the age of ninety ever tells you, “I always learned my lessons the first time, before it was too late,” mark that person well. He lies.
Harlot's Ruse (1986)
That didn’t really fit the facts or make very much sense, but as a theory it had a certain perverse appeal.
Split Heirs (1993)
Yesterday’s sin is today’s trendy must-do.
Demon Blues (1989)