Glen Duncan

I'm too conceited for therapy.

— Glen Duncan

I am a man of lost faiths.

— Glen Duncan

“Reader, I ate him.”

— Glen Duncan

“Then what happened next happened.”

— Glen Duncan

Grace only exists to be fallen from.

— Glen Duncan

“eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul”

— Glen Duncan

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live…

— Glen Duncan

We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.

— Glen Duncan

“Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.”

— Glen Duncan

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

— Glen Duncan

“There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.”

— Glen Duncan

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

— Glen Duncan

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

— Glen Duncan

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

— Glen Duncan

“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their…

— Glen Duncan

“Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...”

— Glen Duncan

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

— Glen Duncan

“The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and…

— Glen Duncan

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

— Glen Duncan

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of…

— Glen Duncan

“I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If…

— Glen Duncan

“The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do…

— Glen Duncan

“There are things you think you won’t be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that…

— Glen Duncan

“It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying,…

— Glen Duncan

“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you…

— Glen Duncan

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of…

— Glen Duncan

“All the metaphors in this world wouldn’t scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that’s just…

— Glen Duncan

“You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you…

— Glen Duncan

“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred…

— Glen Duncan

“And saying it--the first time we say it and mean it-- we cross over into that other world that has so far…

— Glen Duncan

“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and…

— Glen Duncan

“It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few…

— Glen Duncan

“She was afraid of us moving in together. With Mark, domestic intimacy had become domestic claustrophobia; and had riddled romance (though she…

— Glen Duncan

Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you…

— Glen Duncan

“Every time I saw Muslim masses bowed in prayer or the Catholic faithful gathered all I saw was fear. Moronically nodding Hasidim,…

— Glen Duncan

“I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.”

— Glen Duncan

“The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.”

— Glen Duncan

“You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.”

— Glen Duncan