"All the pan-fried toxic muck we throw at this planet...you never know what it might throw back at you."
"Just make sure you sell that stuff pronto, brah. We don't dig no babysitting!"
-Demon of Paradise
“Let’s go to Dave and Buster’s and do fireball shots!”
-Grace & Frankie
"Welcome to Los Angeles. We're here to hit you."
-The Authority
“They tell themselves that their love of these things is ironic, but love is love and how long can you pretend to love something before you debase the very notion of love itself?”
"Your hooves are getting poo all over the carpet."
-Grady Hendrix, Satan Loves You
“Upon the shore of a glowing chemical lake...there rustled and gibbered a city, half-organic in its decadence, palpitating with obscure colours, poisonous and powerful.”
-Michael Moorcock, “Ancient Shadows”
"A twist of the fist snapped the bad guy's wrist with a sloppy gloppy plop, the quick bold move also pointing the SMG muzzle into the crude dude's throat."
-David Alexander, "Phoenix, Book 3: Deathquest"
“The Idea Of Buying And Selling Bits Of The Earth… Can You Imagine The Hubris?”
“The door is open to checkmate.”
“The House Has One Bathroom. I Did That Very Intentionally.”
-Bajillion Dollar Properties
“I went looking for the past, I found it, and to Hell with it.”
-Two Weeks in Another Town
“Get out of the grave, Alan. Get out of the grave and let an artist show you how to call a curse down on Satan!”
“Silence! The magnitude of your simplitude overwhelms me!”
-Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
“Harlan Ellison speaks about 15 languages, all of them English.”
-Michael Moorcock
"The Planet drifts to random insect doom."
-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
-Albert Einstein
“No matter who you’re with. Something, somewhere, is more interesting than this.
And it’s in your pocket.
All the time. As long as the battery lasts.
There’s an alert, a status update, breaking news. There’s a vibration or a text, just waiting. Something. Right now.
Until infinity.
Unless we choose to redefine whatever we’re doing as the thing we’ve chosen to do, right here and right now.”
-Seth Godin
"Always his corpses had walked behind him into the office. That night the corpse rode on his shoulder."
-George R.R. Martin, "Override" (1972)
"We put apples on the trees, instead of pizza."
-George R.R. Martin
“Lesson I've Learned: Everything most people do is to avoid feelings they don't want to feel. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, of course. But sex, success, prestige, status...all of it. That used to be my whole life too--an endless race to avoid feelings I didn't want to feel.”
“Lesson I've Learned: When I'm in emotional pain, I'm usually resisting a realization or feeling. The pain is my body pushing the realization/feeling through my resistance. For me, emotional pain is a signal to stop fighting and start listening to my body.”
-Tucker Max
“Crimson spouted from the shattered base of the skull as a longburst of 185-grain HV steel-jacketed wadcutters screaming from a Steyr MPi69 SMG outfitted with a SIONICS silencer struck the target's skull, buzzsawing it into a thousand jagged fragments.”
-David Alexander, Phoenix: Ground Zero
Frankie Fane: Speaking of broads, whatever happened to Laurel?
Hymie Kelly: I married her.
Frankie Fane: Oh yeah? How is she?
Hymie Kelly: She died.
Frankie Fane: What'd you say?
Hymie Kelly: I said she died.
Frankie: I never said anything about creaming Barney Yale.
Hymie Kelly: Birdseed!
Kay Bergdahl: Frankie, you are *rude* and *nasty*, and *impossible*. Absolutely *impossible*.
Frankie Fane: Will you stop beating on my ears, I'm up to here with all this bring-down!
Frankie Fane: You a tourist or a native?
Kay Bergdahl: Take one from column A and two from column B, you get an egg roll either way.
Hymie Kelly: You finally made it, Frankie! Oscar night! And here you sit, on top of a glass mountain called "success."
Grobard: You got a pretty feisty mouth!
Frankie Fane: And you got a glass head, I can see right through it! It's how I know you're stupid!
Laurel Scott: I've gotta go to work. But when I come back you and me are gonna have a talk!
Frankie Fane: Sure. You'll like talking to yourself!
Kay Bergdahl: If a woman doesn't treasure herself, how can a man treasure her?
Frankie Fane: You make my head hurt with all that poetry.
Frankie Fane: When you tell it straight you don't do any polka, do you.
-The Oscar (1966)
"We are who we are. We kill people, then we have breakfast."
-Counterpart
"We need to solve the mystery of who killed Carl's car."
"A car cannot be killed. It was MURDERED."
"Dancing is forbidden."
-Aqua Teen Hunger Force
"Don't make me take off my sunglasses!"
-Bringing Out the Dead
“We’re American doctors.”
“And apparently also now cops.”
“It’s a big concept we’re still wrapping our heads around.”
-Medical Police
"Melodies don't need to be practical."
"Chatting with a madman is an invaluable privilege."
-Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Book
"You don't have to know everything. A few really big ideas carry most of the freight."
-Charlie Munger
"If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians."
"Intensity is the price of excellence."
"The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging."
-Warren Buffett
“You must realize that you’re facing the living dead, and act accordingly.”
“And they are acting under orders from the devil?”
“Probably.”
Linda was in her room, doing only God knows what.
And Satan.
“Spawns of Hell!” Tressalt shouted at the creatures behind the game concessions. “Filth of Satan!”
-William J. Johnstone, Carnival
"We have ways to make men talk."
-Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1944)
“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
-Goethe
“He and I have not worked up much of a sweat trying to be nice to one another. If he stepped in front of a bullet train and got smeared along half a mile of tracks, I would—believe me—find some way to struggle on with my life. Sadly he doesn’t play on the train tracks as much as I’d like.”
“He was both a super-genius in multiple disciplines and a world-class heartless asshole. We have failed to bond on an epic level.”
-Jonathan Maberry, Joe Ledger
"Romance writers give zero f**ks and will cut you."
-Brian Keene
“Not everything has to be about something.”
-The Rover
