Jonathan Kieran > Jonathan's Quotes

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.”
― Jonathan Kieran, Rowan Blaize and the Hand of Djin Rummy

“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.”
― Jonathan Kieran

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A book that is written for the quirky, mischievous, and decidedly irreverent-minded modern reader, Confessions from the Comments Section will appeal to anyone who enjoys a clever, no-holds-barred roast of our contemporary cultural chaos.”
― Jonathan Kieran, Confessions From The Comments Section: The Secret Lives of Internet Commenters and Other Pop Culture Zombies

“There may come a day when internet comments sections are deemed, for the good of humanity and the sanity of civilization in general, to be a form of biohazard or metaphysical catastrophe.”
― Jonathan Kieran, Confessions From The Comments Section: The Secret Lives of Internet Commenters and Other Pop Culture Zombies

“The footsteps of Western Civilization are currently hobbled by a serious case of fallen arches.”
― Jonathan Kieran

“It was waiting. Waiting for all the world to arrive, as if all the world had been expected to arrive.”
― Jonathan Kieran, Wistwood