Dale Verkler > Dale's Quotes

“In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister...

"I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster into a future akin to a dystopian novel I'll never run out of material to write more books. Although now that reality is more bizarre than fiction maybe plot-lines will need to be more ambitious. Perhaps a book where Boris Johnson is really an accidental sentient snafu of Trump's scrotum lint. Kind of a sequel to the Bush-Blair story. I see musical rights being drawn up as we speak.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Though simple and obvious as an act of art, the drawing portrayed the silly, helpless tendency of fundamental things to get way off course and turn into nonsense, illustrated the church's grotesque pearling around its traditional heart, explained the pernicious extrapolating rules and observances of governments - implicated all of us in a gradual apostasy from every perfect thing we find or make.”
― Denis Johnson, The Name of the World

“...only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.”
― Georges Bataille

“Zillah took her arm and led her toward the van. Ann kept her arm squeezed against her body so that his fingers would come into contact with the sideswell of her breast. He didn’t move his hand away. Soon she felt his fingers begin to move, subtly caressing her, a forefinger darting out to graze her nipple. The nipple shivered erect,”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“Какво ме интересуват вашите ниви! Какво ме интересуват вашите деца и вашия добитък… Вие живеете дребен плътски живот. Вие не познавате лукса!… Този лукс ви го предлагам аз: предложих ви господа… Но господ не обича дъжда… господ не обича детелината. Господ не се интересува от вашите лехи и от мизерните ви приключения. Господ е възглавничка от златен брокат, диамант с обковка от слънчеви лъчи, скъпоценна резба, изваяна в любовта. Господ е Отьой и Паси, копринено расо, бродирани чорапи, огърлици и пръстени, той е ненужното, прекрасното, електрическите дарохранителници..”
― Boris Vian, Heartsnatcher

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
― Iain Banks