Quotes by Warren Ellis

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.

Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehend and experience things like... vengeance, for instance. Or terror. Loss. Hate. Hate is all you need. Hate means never having to say youre sorry. You cant hate properly without ever having been in love. Because nothing will teach you hate as well as being in love. You cant understand a place without loving it. And its the act of loving it that teaches you to hate it, as it chips away at your heart with its daily failures and disappointments.

By four oclock, Ive discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

There are many good reasons for drinking, and ones just entered my head: If you dont drink when youre living, how the fuck can you drink when youre dead?

The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, I found this up him!You know, said Tallow, I really have no response to that.

Our guy has a property office, John. And I dont mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the huge fucking storage facility. A guy in there, with access to thousands of fucking handguns. Even the ones that other people would be keeping an eye on, like Son of Sams piece, for fucks sake - a guy in there wholl just boost them and give them to our guy to kill people with. And if the guns are too famous, hell cut his own slugs out of the bodies and walk away. This guy, our guy, hes actually starting to scare me a bit right now.A couple of hundred kills to his name didnt do that?Meh. I dream about killing two hundred people every fucking night.You know, said Tallow, whenever Im in danger of forgetting youre CSU, you always find a way to remind me.

Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the others skin as a hat within the year.

If contemporary literary fiction doesnt read a bit like science fiction then its probably not all that contemporary, is it

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

You people dont know what the truth is! Its there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! Thats what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!

In the long run, you see, none of that matters.Ive seen Heaven, Dowling. And its not a place where you exercise any power.In the long run, we are all three-dimensional side-effects of a two-dimensional universe existing in a multidimensional stack.

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. Theres been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. Im more popular than any of these designed-by-pedophile pop moppets littering the music television and the gossip columns. Ive killed more people than Paris Hilton has desemenated, I was famous before she was here and Ill be famous after shes gone. I am the mainstream. I am, in fact, the only true rock star of the modern age. Every newspaper in America never fails to report on my comeback tours, and I get excellent reviews.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

Theres one hole in every revolution, large or small. And its one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. Its people that kill every revolution.

I cant solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people cant avoid noticing them.

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable.Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour.