Keith Baker > Keith's Quotes

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

("The Castle")”
― Michael Connelly

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

“I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

“Let’s honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.”
― Steve Anderson, Under False Flags

“In decades from now, I’m sure they’ll say we Joes were all noble, every one of us grimy but patriotic cherubs. Because we won a war. Back home they already do think it, thanks to the publicity teams, the ads, correspondents, censors. I’m not buying it. If we have to come here and fight to do away with your Hitler and the sorry mess he created, then people ought to know just how much the effort sucks all our souls. That way, maybe no one will try a war again.”
― Steve Anderson, Under False Flags

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild