Rick > Rick's Quotes

“This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as "that bastard Klaw.”
― Michael Moorcock

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Go to hell, I'm reading!”
― Archie Goodwin

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ”
― Harry S. Truman

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”
― William Browning Spencer

“To write books is easy, it requires only pen and ink and the ever-patient paper. To print books is a little more difficult, because genius so often rejoices in illegible handwriting. To read books is more difficult still, because of a tendency to go to sleep. But the most difficult task of all that
a mortal man can embark on is to sell a book.”
― Stanley Unwin

“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”
― A.M. Homes

“Baseball's Sad Lexicon

These are the saddest of possible words:
Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Trio of Bear-cubs, fleeter than birds,
Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double --
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble:
Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
― Franklin Robert Adams

“Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.”
― Chris Roberson

“The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.”
― Michael Moorcock

“[A]nything served in a Chinese restaurant is Kosher, even pork.

from The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals ”
― Duff Goldman

“If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.”
― Alan Moore

“Ferd, the one with the .32, shifted the gun to his left hand and drove his right into my kidney. I wanted to scream, but the hump of muscle choked it off. There was nothing else to do, so I farted.”
― Ralph Dennis, Atlanta Deathwatch

“I do bad at school because sometimes I think when I should be learning.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

“There can be no genial companionship among great egotists who have drunk too much.”
― James Ellroy, The Best American Noir of the Century

“Or to really care what time it was, in an America where the idea of the future was a form of nostalgia rarely discussed outside of corner bars and neighborhood marijuana dispensaries.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“It was sitting there under a gift-shop bust of Socrates, the inventor of mansplaining.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Taking people away from the land where their families have lived for generations turns out to be politically destabilizing. Americans kind of perfected that model. They just never considered the possibility that it would happen to them, in no small part because of how they had abused that land.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“When it was backlit like that, but there was still enough light that you could see the mustang vines growing up the sides and poking out through the windows, the modernist concrete blocks of the old JCPenney store looked every bit like a Mayan ruin.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Male academics, Donny later read in one of the memos that cleared the interrogation enhancements, were the easiest subjects to get to rat out their friends. The theories for why that was varied.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“I hate both you bastards,” Stump said. “You now belong to a sizable club,” Hanson said.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Hoodoo Harry

“Patricia’s soul decided that it was no fool and ascended into the afterlife, leaving her at the mercy of the women surrounding her.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“If baseball’s a sin, I’m going to Hell,” Kitty said.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“We’re not a lynch mob, we’re a book club,” Kitty said. “We’ve always been there for each other.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“But I tell you, I did some real fretting, and honestly, if it hadn’t been for the fact that God and I parted company so long ago, I might have even been sap enough to pray for him.”
― James Ellroy, The Best American Noir of the Century

“We were in our broken-down Buick that had come from a time when cars were big and the American dream lay well within reach for just about anyone white and male and straight who wanted to reach for it. All others, take a number and wait.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Moon Lake

“It was like someone had jacked up Elvis and driven John Wayne up his ass.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Moon Lake

“Just give the switch a quick flick. First time I turned it on, I managed to touch the wire instead of the switch and got lit up well enough I damn near sucked my panties up through my asshole. I could taste them in my mouth.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Moon Lake