45 quotes
True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
Sky Coyote (1999)
Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!
Sky Coyote (1999)
Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?
The Graveyard Game (2001)
When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
Sky Coyote (1999)
You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
The Graveyard Game (2001)
Smashing things is the violent way stupid mortal monkeys solve their problems.
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
“Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,” I quoted.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
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.
The Life of the World to Come (2004)
The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
Sky Coyote (1999)
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
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.
Sky Coyote (1999)
Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
Edward holds up a hand for silence. “If you please, Captain: he’s thinking. Let us savor the exquisite rarity of the moment.”
The Sons of Heaven (2007)
Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
The Life of the World to Come (2004)
I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)