Keith Baughman

“Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn’t—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter.”
― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again. Dissolution does but give birth to fresh modes of organization, and one death is the parent of a thousand lives.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist