F. Paul Wilson > Quotes

“If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.”
― F. Paul Wilson

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”
― F. Paul Wilson

“Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Healer

“War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?”
― F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal

“He isn’t a government or an army. He’s a guy. No matter what you think of any particular war, you’ve got to feel something for some poor guy ripped out of his life and handed a gun and sent somewhere to kill other guys who’ve been ripped out of their lives and sent to do the same thing, and while they’re both shivering in their foxholes, scared they’re not going to see another sunrise, all the fat cats, all the generals and politicos and priests and mullahs and tribal elders who started the whole damn thing, sit way to the rear, moving their chess pieces around.” He jerked a thumb over his shoulder as he took a breath. “He got handed the dirty end of a dirty stick but he handled it. You’ve got to respect that.”
― F. Paul Wilson, All the Rage

“Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Tomb

“The acronym was derived from the title of the first book--a pamphlet, really-- in which Khyfo was expounded, a supposedly scatalogical phase that meant 'Don't Touch'...

The title was Keep Your Fucking Hands Off. Mean anything to you?

Not a thing.

Nor to me. But it supposedly summed up their philosophy pretty well at the time.”
― F. Paul Wilson, An Enemy of the State

“Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Conspiracies

“There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.

Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.”
― F. Paul Wilson, An Enemy of the State

“The horror had begun.”
― F. Paul Wilson

“And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on it, and I have no way of knowing not only whether the markings are actually there, but whether the piece of paper exists.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set

“Oh, how this sucked. This sucked so thoroughly. It was hard to even quantify the level of suck involved here.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set

“Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread

“The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.”
― F. Paul Wilson

“I will.” They both knew that was a lie, but Jack was doing”
― F. Paul Wilson, Bloodline

“Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that select cadre of women writers who are ignoring the safe old tropes and pushing the genre in new directions.”
― F. Paul Wilson

“What about compassion? ”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Select

“Tim pressed a finger to his lips.  "Careful, my friend.  The walls may have ears.”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Select

“Dr. Alston?  It's Marge, down at the office...Yes, we called him...No, apparently he's decided to go to Yale instead...That's right, sir...No, I don't know why...Yes, sir, I certainly can do that, but I think you should know, one of the wait-list students is right here...Dr. Alston?  Are you there?...Yes,”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Select

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ground Zero

“Don’t aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set

“There can be no coexistence with monsters'" Glenn said, "be they Nazis or Nosferatu. Excuse me." He”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Keep

“You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience." Cuza”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Keep

“I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set

“I had never heard of it, but then I do not clutter my mind with trivialities such as tales of ancient sunken cities and such. They take up room that might be more usefully occupied by facts and theories related to solving crimes. I recall how Watson was shocked when he learned that I could not name the planets, and had no idea that they numbered eight. But really, of what use is such information? None.”
― F. Paul Wilson, For the Sake of the Game

“covered with a think”
― F. Paul Wilson, Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set

“He hated the Inquisition and what it had done to the Spains. He found it logical that the Church should want to safeguard the doctrines that empowered it, but at what cost? Thousands upon thousands had been tortured, hundreds upon hundreds had died in agony, tens of thousands had been banished from the land. A whole society had been upended.

But preserving the Faith was only part of it. The war for the crown of Castile, in which his family had been slaughtered, plus the war in Grenada–the whole Reconquista, in fact–had bankrupted the monarchy. Banishing the Jews and Moors did more than make the Spains a Christian realm. It left the abandoned properties to be looted by the Church and the royal treasury–an equal share between them. The same with heretics: the Church and the treasury divided their property and money down the middle.

Wealth and power–the two Holy Grails of Church and state.”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Compendium of Srem

“Saturday night special if he’d ever seen one—pointed at”
― F. Paul Wilson, Infernal

“sunglasses and rubbed his right eye with his index finger.  "Let's see...it was the October 15th issue, page 12, lower right-hand corner." Quinn”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Select

“Father Ed took a deep breath. "Like my parishioner, I’m feeling I might have a need to confess. Would that be true?"
Jack shrugged. “Not my call.”
"How about you? Would you be needing to confess?"
"I don’t think so. I had it on the authority of a good man that I was doing God’s work.”
― F. Paul Wilson, The Haunted Air