“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 Fairy tale Copy Share Image
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words… — Glen Duncan Compassion Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.” — Glen Duncan Beauty Copy Share Image
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. — Glen Duncan Dimensions Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I noticed how utterly indifferent the passengers were to what they were doing, namely, flying through the air. A glance out of… — Glen Duncan Computer games Copy Share Image
“He'd seen her not really recognising him, not really, when it came down to it, caring who he was. It was disgusting,… — Glen Duncan Disgust Copy Share Image
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,… — Glen Duncan Autonomy Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Assault Copy Share Image
“Heaven's heard us down here, cackling at our piss-takes and chortling at our quips; I've seen the looks, the suspicion that they're… — Glen Duncan Comedy Copy Share Image
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Oy, Jake,” he said, shaking his head, like a benevolent rabbi I’d disappointed with my weak will. “Impatience. Seriously. I know this… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan Cities Copy Share Image
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. — Glen Duncan Experience Copy Share Image
“I find I still adore walking. Absurd, obviously, what with it being merely a case of putting one foot in front of… — Glen Duncan Absurd Copy Share Image
“Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in… — Glen Duncan Age Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as evil for its own sake . All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.” — Glen Duncan Evil Copy Share Image
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do. — Glen Duncan Alive Copy Share Image
Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I'm still bothered. You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan Adults Copy Share Image
Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots… — Glen Duncan Brics Copy Share Image
