Tim Powers Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.