177 Quotes by Richard Kadrey

Lucifer was his name in Perdition. In Heaven, he’s Samael.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

What happened to your face?” she says idly. “Which time?” “The new one.” “I got shot.

The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you’re going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.

I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.

Kasabian is still shrieking like a banshee, which is pretty good for a guy with no lungs.

So far, being dead is about as much fun as a barbed-wire G-string. Yes, there is such a thing. They invented it in Hell, which is where I am. I already said I was dead. Where else would I be? Try to keep up.

I should sit down and make a list of everything I missed while I was gone. If you can’t smoke in bars anymore, what other atrocities has the world committed?

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn’t going to help.