Richard Kadrey Quotes

I didn't want this high a profile, but at least now everyone knows I'm armed.

Short of flamethrowers, nukes, or a bunch of trained Drifter killers, the best strategy is nature’s simplest: run like you’re a zebra at a waterhole and a pride of lions just showed up with ketchup an...

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Thievery pays for the tools, and the work shows me the mind of God. Stealing is a lot like alchemy, you know. In each, we each try to find what is beautiful and hidden and make it ours.

Thanks for treating me like, you know, a person through all this shit. I know that isn't always easy. (Stark)You do have a habit of pissing on other people's welcome mats. But, when a gentleman gives...

I’m not a huge fan of other people’s logic.

The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But...

For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made yo...

LOLLIPOP DOLLS IS like some weird little girl's hunting lodge. The heads and faces of every Japanese cartoon character and monster are hung on the walls like trophies. Their plastic guts are in model...

The way he’s shooting, he couldn’t hit the sky from a weather balloon.

You still think I have a good side? There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.

I hate this place. You can’t get a cup of coffee unless it has a backstory and a pedigree so the café can charge you as much for the cup as a normal human pays for dinner. Women drive by in cute littl...

See? That’s a positive attitude. Give it a try. I shift the bundle around in my arms. I did it once. I got a rash. Alice

One rule of thumb in fighting is that crazy can often overcome skill and numbers, because, while a trained fighter might actually enjoy going up against another trained fighter, no one really wants to...

I sit on the end of the bed, trying to look as nonlethal as an extra from Night of the Living Dead can.

No. You open it. You think I put a bomb in there? Maybe snakes? Maybe a snake bomb?

Let me finish my beer. (Stark)Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)

Home late. Be naked.

When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls’ pigtails in inkwell...

Mostly, Sub Rosas are the people regular people aren't supposed to know about. It's not that we don't like you; it's that you have a habit of burning us at the stake when you notice us.

Of course, aside from fear, the God business runs on sentimentality. That’s the only explanation. Unless it’s a real estate scam.