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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”

— Glen Duncan

“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.”

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an…

— Glen Duncan

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…

— Glen Duncan

“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael”

— Glen Duncan

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

— Glen Duncan

When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I…

— Glen Duncan

“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as…

— Glen Duncan

“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.”

— Glen Duncan