Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them… — Glen Duncan Age Copy Share Image
“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell,… — Glen Duncan Art Copy Share Image
“Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and… — Glen Duncan Life Copy Share Image
“Thus she's discovered the Conradian truth: The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it...You do what you do… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself… — Glen Duncan Affair Copy Share Image
Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning… — Glen Duncan Delusion Copy Share Image
“For almost a decade I was haunted by the memory of Deborah Black, I was about to claim. But the memory didn't… — Glen Duncan Memory Copy Share Image
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I wish you had fucked her. Then you’d know. Then you’d know the sublime … Her asshole, for example. It’s like a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is the crux. It doesn't really matter what the language is, only whether there's a transcendent moral grammar underpinning… — Glen Duncan Language Copy Share Image
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the… — Glen Duncan Girl Copy Share Image
“There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down,… — Glen Duncan Bliss Copy Share Image
“Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When… — Glen Duncan Children Copy Share Image
“I'm supposed to be guilty of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but when you get right down to it, I'm really… — Glen Duncan Crime Copy Share Image
“The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee.… — Glen Duncan Mirror Copy Share Image
“The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions… — Glen Duncan History Copy Share Image
