George Alec Effinger Quotes

#1. The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them. The - Author: George Alec Effinger

#2. Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#3. I closed my eyes and wished I believed in something enough to pray to it. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#4. I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#5. I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#6. I don't carry a weapon, Mr. Bogatyrev. Not usually. I've never been in a situation where I needed one. Either the other guy has one, and I do what he says, or he doesn't, and I make him do what I say. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#7. After sex, all animals are sad; after any kind of pleasure, really. We're not built for pleasure. We're built for agony and for seeing things too clearly, which is often a terrible agony in itself. I loathed myself then, and I loathed myself now. Dr. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#8. Drugs are your friends, treat them with respect. You wouldn't throw your friends in the garbage. You wouldn't flush your friends down the toilet. If that's the way you treat your friends or your drugs, you don't deserve to have either. Give them to me. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#9. Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#10. if I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#11. That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#12. If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead, man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#13. Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive. - Author: George Alec Effinger

#14. The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes. - Author: George Alec Effinger