The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to th…

- Tim Powers

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

- Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

- Tim Powers

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

- Tim Powers

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like…

- Tim Powers

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from ot…

- Tim Powers

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

- Tim Powers

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

- Tim Powers