He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
By the piss of Satan, pug, your sauce is dangerous!
She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun.
Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something other...
The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in the room the rearing canvas stares back with tentative shapes halted in the...
The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed up at Steerpike with a row of four equidistant eyes. There was no reason why the...
I said she was wicked, and she said that everyone was – everyone and everything except rivers, clouds, and some rabbits.
His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.
You are a clever little monster,' said the Doctor, tossing off another cognac and placing the glass upon the table with a click. 'A diabolically clever little monster.' 'That is what I hoped you would...
Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to...
It was a long head.It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the features had been forced to stake their claims, and it appeared that they had done so in a great hurry and with no...
It led on and on; vistas of forgotten metal; moribund, stiff in a thousand attitudes of mortality; with not a rat, not a mouse; not a bat, not a spider. Only the Lamb, sitting in his high chair with a...
I saw a PuffinIn the Bay of BaffinSittin on NuffinAnd it was Laffin.
Hold fast To the lawOf the lastCold tome,Where the earthOf the truthLies thickOn the page,And the loamOf faithIn the inkLong fledFrom the droneOf the nibFlows onThrough the breathOf the boneRebornIn a...
He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.
Directly Mr Pye stepped ashore he heard her voice. 'The name is Dredger,' it said.Mr Pye lifted his head again, his thorn-shaped nose veering towards her and the rest of his round face following it, a...
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip a...
Steerpike of the Many Problems, said the Doctor. What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. It’s as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the extremit...
Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.