Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
lying clueless perfectly-good
No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.
drinking men perfectly-good
Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.
perfect guy nobodys-perfect
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
mean immortal stills
Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?
morning sick talking time until
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
books funny
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.
enjoyed spending time wrote
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
fans great humor senses
My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.
somebody soon sort
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
horror ray
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
advance reviews
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
death
I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.
takes
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
pryor richard
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.