Tim Powers Quotes

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.