174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...