“(Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say "Hey, if we grow our own food, we won't have to hunt it down all the time." Mostly, I was just… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“[T]here may be no more depressing place on the planet than the floor of a casino.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“(A note: succubi are notorious amateur psychologists and have been since well before Freud. In fact I have it on good authority that Freud… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“Are you trying to talk me out of going?” “I am trying to figure out who you really are.” “Same man I was last… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“Like most remarkable things, nobody realized it was remarkable as it happened.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened?" "Exactly." "No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“(Very few vampires bother to sleep in a coffin, if you must know. Lugging one around everywhere you go is inconvenient, and it almost… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“So, what do I call you?" I asked. "Whomp." "Whomp? Your given name?" "It's the sound people make when I hit them in the… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“...while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because… — Gene Doucette Copy Share
“(As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment very clearly.… — Gene Doucette Copy Share