47 Quotes by Tim Powers

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” – William Faulkner.

It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And.

The other suicide had been the actress Clara Blandick, who, one day in 1962, had got her hair fixed up and had carefully done her makeup and put on a formal gown and then pulled a plastic bag over her head and smothered herself. She was chiefly remembered for having played Auntie Em in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.

Newton must have been right when he’d said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.

I’ve learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you’ve got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Somebody’s killing the moon, the goddess; some woman has apparently taken on the – what would the word be – goddess-hood and somebody’s killing her. I think it’s too late for her, and I don’t know the circumstances, but she’s got a child, a little girl. An infant, in fact, to judge by how close Venus was to the moon when we saw it.” Here.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn’t be a Conservative party today if people hadn’t come from other parties.