wayne kiefer

“what we call modern society, what we always think of as the most important time the world has ever known, simply because we are in it—is just the sausage made by grinding up history.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“both Neptune and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in the orbits of the other outer planets. It made me think that planets weren’t so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“Every great nation dies of suicide, Toynbee said, not murder.”
― Mike Bond, Crude: Ukraine, Oil and Nuclear War

“a life without books is a thirsty life,”
― Stephen King, Duma Key