Glen Cook
Glen Cook
Glen Charles Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series...
men soul aliens
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
honesty nice lying
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.
men two evil
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.
lying book believe
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
sometimes concrete knows
Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.
real character writing
The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.
want waste
Where there is no waste, there is no want.
dream dust once-upon-a-time
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
moving rational hammered
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
lying being-true knows
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
dream men rich
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
believe men evil
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
children names laughing
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.
past men needs
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.