Glen Duncan

I am a man of lost faiths.

— Glen Duncan

I'm too conceited for therapy.

— Glen Duncan

Grace only exists to be fallen from.

— Glen Duncan

“Reader, I ate him.”

— Glen Duncan

“Then what happened next happened.”

— Glen Duncan

“She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on.”

— Glen Duncan

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

— Glen Duncan

“Imagination was condemned to make something of things.”

— Glen Duncan

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

“You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.”

— Glen Duncan

“... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.”

— Glen Duncan

“The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.”

— Glen Duncan

“The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions.”

— Glen Duncan

“She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.”

— Glen Duncan

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words…

— Glen Duncan

“A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale,” I said. “But she’s naked and…

— Glen Duncan

“When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.”

— Glen Duncan

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

— Glen Duncan

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

— Glen Duncan

“Don't kill me—you fucking cunt. Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking…

— Glen Duncan

“Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the…

— Glen Duncan

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole…

— 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…

— Glen Duncan

“Vengeance for the murdered supposed the dead enjoyed sufficient afterlife to appreciate their efforts. The dead enjoyed nothing of the kind. The…

— Glen Duncan

Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and…

— Glen Duncan

I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not…

— Glen Duncan

“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought…

— Glen Duncan

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was…

— Glen Duncan

“This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut…

— Glen Duncan

“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry,…

— Glen Duncan

“The beauty of the concept is that it takes the wind out of so many would-be ethical sails: the company that owns…

— Glen Duncan

“We found ways. This is the story, the human story, the werewolf story, the life story: One finds ways. Kissing, slowly, was…

— Glen Duncan

“She had something Adam didn't. Curiosity. First step to growth -- and if it wasn't for Eve's Adam would still be sitting…

— Glen Duncan

“The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for…

— Glen Duncan

“Like her, he didn't buy the Nietzschean line that whatever didn't kill you made you stronger. Sometimes whatever didn't kill you disfigured…

— Glen Duncan

“I know what the majority of you think about all this. All this sex and money and drugs. You think: people who…

— Glen Duncan

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.

— Glen Duncan

“Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died.”

— Glen Duncan

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

— Glen Duncan