450 Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

Modern civilization owes its existence to beer. Hunter-gatherers individually lacked the time and resources to create a raspberry pilsner, so our nomadic ancestors were seduced into an agrarian lifestyle that might someday evolve into local microbrews. I am not sure if teetotalers minded the goats while others were busy getting plastered or if they were cast out of the tribe for being dull.

In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.

Portland could have been any city. Port Clyde was too uncluttered to be anything else. There is a reason Stephen King sets his stories in little Maine towns. They are too quiet to be believed wholly savory.

If I were planning to propagate my pods, I would do it in a quiet, beautiful town. No Pleiadean worth their cesium would start their nefarious plans near a skyscraper.

I felt nothing standing there that I would not feel in any cemetery, quiet and curious and mortal.

Science is the language God speaks. The better we know how things work, the closer we are to the divine.

Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons.

What marvelous fortune to have lived to see a world that would one day make you.