The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.
Tim Powers Quotes
born 1952 United States
Timothy Thomas Powers (born 29 February 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
- United States
- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
75 quotes
Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)
“Maybe later,” he told her. “Time yet for a hundred indecisions.”
Alternate Routes (2018)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.
Declare (2001)
The Anubis Gates (1983)
Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.
Declare (2001)
The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
On Stranger Tides (1987)
Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.
The Drawing of the Dark (1979)
The terrain is the body, the map is the anatomy chart.
Alternate Routes (2018)
We should all be getting insanity danger pay.
Stolen Skies (2022)
Art, like a lot of things, is a lost art.
The Skies Discrowned (1976)
Guesses based on guesses are of no value.
Forced Perspectives (2020)
“Doesn’t she read chicken entrails?”
“Oh! No, astrology.”
“Same sort of thing.”
Medusa's Web (2016)
I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
“And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.”
Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017)
Medusa's Web (2016)
All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale’s whole life.
Declare (2001)
He wondered if she had actually read his mind or simply knew him well enough to guess his thoughts.
Earthquake Weather (1997)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tim Powers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.