Richard Kadrey Quotes

“I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.”

“All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.”

“Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”

“I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.”

“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”

“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”

“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”

“We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.”

“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”

“That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.”

“No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.”

“I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.”

“He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.”

“The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.”

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

“Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.”

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

“Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?”

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

“In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.”

“It's so quiet and peaceful out here I'm getting bored with breathing. Maybe we'll get lucky and the world will go to Hell again. Fingers crossed.”