Kage Baker Quotes
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.
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Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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Just when I thought things couldn’t get any stranger, I was proven wrong.
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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'You’ve no appreciation of high romance, that’s your trouble,' Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor. Joseph nodded somberly. 'Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don’t get it.'
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.
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It’s sad when people are stupid.
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Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers.
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'So, um...are you alone out here?''I was,' she said.
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He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Times had changed.Sooner or later, they always did.
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'Why should we obey you?' Budu asked.'Because I’m, er, omnipotent,' said Alec.
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You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.
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'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'
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And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.