Dead Set Quotes

“I guess, if someone was really kicking your ass, you’d want them to be special. I mean, I’d rather have Batman kick my ass than Mickey Mouse any day.”
― Richard Kadrey, Dead Set

“What is this place? Heaven?” Her father laughed. “That’s everyone’s first question.” “It’s not hell, is it?” “That’s everyone’s second question,” he said.”
― Richard Kadrey, Dead Set

“When she was six, someone had explained to her that the grooves on the LPs were really little hills and valleys and that the needles made music from bouncing through them. One day when she learned that her fingerprints were little hills and valleys, she got a sewing needle and dragged it across her fingers. All it did was draw blood. Lesson learned. People weren’t records. Records were.”
― Richard Kadrey, Dead Set

“Sometimes, out in the world . . . being exactly what people want and expect . . . well, maybe it isn’t a good thing but it’s a smart thing.”
― Richard Kadrey, Dead Set

“The first person to say ‘Intelligent Design’ has to wear the Charles Darwin beard I keep in my desk for the rest of the year.”
― Richard Kadrey, Dead Set