Matthew Keefer > Matthew's Quotes

“Good paperbacks are among the most valuable weapons of any society. Good hardcovers doubly so.”
― Matthew Keefer

“If you haven't carried a voice recorder in the past 72 hours to capture the sum of your brilliant quotes, you should reconsider the life you've lived.”
― Matthew Keefer

“Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.”
― Katherine Hepburn

“Social media: the promise of friends at the price of friendship.”
― Matthew Keefer

“How can you trust a place if you can't trust the sky?”
― Matthew Keefer, The Keeper of Dreams: A Dozen Stories and Poems

“It is the first thing to go/
I've noticed,/
The voice.”
― Matthew Keefer, The Keeper of Dreams: A Dozen Stories and Poems

“…you know, sometimes an electric lightbulb goes out all of a sudden. Fizzles, you say. And this burned-out bulb, if you shake it, it flashes again and it’ll burn a little longer. Inside the bulb it’s a disaster. The wolfram filaments are breaking up, and when the fragments touch, life returns to the bulb. A brief, unnatural, undeniably doomed life—a fever, a too-bright incandescence, a flash. The comes the darkness, life never returns, and in the darkness the dead, incinerated filaments are just going to rattle around. Are you following me? But the brief flash is magnificent!

“I want to shake…

“I want to shake the heart of a fizzled era. The lightbulb of the heart, so that the broken pieces touch…

“…and produce a beautiful, momentary flash…”
― Yuri Olesha, Envy

“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

“I may be no idiot, but I do know stupidity when I see it.”
― Matthew Keefer