I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilized humans.

— Glen Duncan

If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.

— Glen Duncan

If you had a lot of money, and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

— Glen Duncan

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

— Glen Duncan

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

— Glen Duncan

It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

— Glen Duncan

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

— Glen Duncan

It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

— Glen Duncan

I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it, you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.

— Glen Duncan

Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional pardons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind for back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movie, usually...

— Glen Duncan