Shane Perry > Shane's Quotes

“Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.”
― Brian Vaughan

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.

To be a true poet is to become God.

I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven’s Gate. ‘Piss, shit,’ I said. ‘Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Peepee cunt. Goddamn!’

They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.”
― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

“I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“I do not listen when anyone uses the word 'immoral'. In the young it is ridiculous. In the old, it is sententious and reactionary. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“A baby wasn't an idea, as love was an idea. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A baby was the oldest deal there was, to go on living.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“We learn from one another and teach one another. That is what life is all about. For as we learn, we advance as a species. We learn until we die.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, House Corrino

“We’re all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time. Usually associated with invasions, abductions, or other hostile acts, the term “alien” gets a bad rap. But over the years, the word has come to mean something very different to me... future friend material.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga #34

“If there’s an opposite of a honeymoon, it’s the week after a couples first child is born. No matter how hard they try, no matter how pure their intentions... everything will go wrong.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Book One