Steven Pickle

“You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there’s always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire

“With words I have knit my shroud and will bury myself therein”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it’s a mess.”
― Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

“Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm