177 Quotes by Richard Kadrey

Hell didn’t make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

It doesn’t matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don’t say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can’t get through.

Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots.

Brooding is for chickens, as my first-grade teacher used to say. Or maybe it was Lucifer. Homily reciters all kind of run together for me.

Quid salvum est si Roma perit?” What is safe if Rome perishes?

Thank God for whiskey or the world would be so full of secrets the weight would spin us into the sun.

That’s how you know someone likes you. Anyone can give you chocolate and flowers, but when they’ll disembowel someone for you? That’s true love.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn’t matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.