Richard Kadrey Quotes

I’d rather watch you do the backstroke in lava.

Is killing someone always like this? Just the first couple of times. After that it’s like folding socks. But that’s just me. She

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Like a man once said: ‘I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ The

ONCE UPON A time I was a regular jackass living a regular jackass life.

I'm always careful. It's whiskey that isn't careful.

Yes, there are vampires. Try to keep up.

When you’re drowning in Hell, even a cement life jacket can look good.

Pale vines follow me as I walk, cooing and sighing, hoping I have oatmeal for brains and will get close enough that they can drag me off and eat me at their leisure. And at the center of all this trea...

You have to burn beliefs when they become convenient lies solely for the purpose of gaining and holding power.

Thank God for whiskey or the world would be so full of secrets the weight would spin us into the sun.

Maybe that's why Heaven is silent and God doesn't speak to man anymore. Heavenly intervention would blow the point spread.

We’re in front of a run-down little motel, the kind you see along Route 66, but not the quaint kind you stay in. It’s more like the ones where you check in for an hour and come out with crabs or what...

He’s a little ray of sunshine, your partner. I look at him as my last training test. Can I work with him long enough without shooting him to get a promotion?

Nothing good has ever come from anything that begins with God has a message for you.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

I’ve swallowed enough sand that I’m going to shit cinder blocks.

I down whatever’s in the glass, though, because at this point I’d drink paint thinner out of a hobo’s galoshes.

I guess I don’t have a choice. Of course you have a choice, she says. They’re just not very good choices.

Merry-go-rounds are a shared lie of childhood. Cruelty masked as fun. Tedium cloaked as adventure. A great spinning vessel of torment getting the tykes ready for the damnation most of them will richly...

She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.