Glen Duncan

“The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His…

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

— 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

“You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it.”

— Glen Duncan

“Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only…

— Glen Duncan

“The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee.…

— 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

“Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know…

— Glen Duncan

“It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.”

— Glen Duncan

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

— 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

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

— Glen Duncan

“I saw our future together compressed into a moment; our faces changing, desire having to cope and reinvent itself at each new…

— 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

“The bad smell around the transfer of lucre was that it smacked of providing for her after my death. Neither of us…

— 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

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

— Glen Duncan

“Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion?…

— Glen Duncan

“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

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at…

— Glen Duncan

“He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness…

— 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

“The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising…

— Glen Duncan

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would…

— Glen Duncan