When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That’s why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can …

- Michael Marshall Smith

Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt eve…

- Michael Marshall Smith

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it d…

- Michael Marshall Smith

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

- Michael Marshall Smith

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

- Michael Marshall Smith

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retro…

- Michael Marshall Smith

Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software…

- Michael Marshall Smith

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

- Michael Marshall Smith

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

- Michael Marshall Smith