Kage Baker

"Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!"

"Just when I thought things couldn’t get any stranger, I was proven wrong."

"“When will you stop this metaphysical nonsense?” said Edward wearily. “But I suppose you’ve no other way to look at the matter, born as you were in an age of superstitious piety."

"Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough…"

"Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?"

"Religion has its place, certainly, in reinforcing ethical behavior amongst the masses, but any sufficiently enlightened secular laws will have the same effect. After all, most of the creeds of the wor…"

"Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers."

"“Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,” I quoted."