91 Quotes by John Crowley

And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a world that is uncreated: that is the work of no author. A world that imagination cannot thereafter alter, not in its deepest workings and its laws, but only envision in new ways; where our elder brothers and sisters, the things, suffer our childish logomantic games with them and wait for us to grow up, and know better; where we do grow up, and do know better.

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.

Houses made of houses within houses made of time.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.

Handsome guy, Victor, in a brutal, black-Irish way. Like most New York bartenders, he was really an actor, or was it the reverse? ("Novelty")

We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.

We decided we wanted the hospitals to have an opportunity to digest this information (before) we would issue a press release,