Joe Abercrombie

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”

“I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.”

“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.”

“Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.”

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”