All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

— Glen Duncan

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

— Glen Duncan

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

— Glen Duncan

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

— Glen Duncan

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

— Glen Duncan

Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one. Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

— Glen Duncan

Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loved with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mold. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?

— Glen Duncan

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like what you do...[Lucifer]

— Glen Duncan

How was the light today?”“Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someone’s hand was pulling it, very gently. It was soft-edged and orange. The land went purple, then dark blue and gray, then black. Then you opened your eyes.

— Glen Duncan

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

— Glen Duncan