The key fob played the first bar of Für Elise as I locked…

“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any…

— Mike Carey

“No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.”

— Mike Carey

“And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer.”

— Mike Carey

“The light of a hunter's moon bleached the unresisting pastels from the faces of the towers, so that they looked like titanic ribs of…

— Mike Carey

“You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen?”

— Mike Carey

“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night…

— Mike Carey

“ Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have.…

— Mike Carey

“My mum’s getting married,” said Cheryl. “Again. At the Brompton Oratory. Fourth time around the track, this is. They don’t say ‘Till death us…

— Mike Carey

“And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with…

— Mike Carey

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't…

— Mike Carey

I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.

— Mike Carey

“Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are…

— Mike Carey

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story…

— Mike Carey

“When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're…

— Mike Carey

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey