“[T]here may be no more depressing place on the planet than the floor of a casino.” — Gene Doucette Casino Copy Share Image
“The dragon roared. Terrible sound, that. Made my testicles shrink.” — Gene Doucette Roared Terrible Copy Share Image
“[K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious.” — Gene Doucette Anxious Copy Share Image
“So, what do I call you?" I asked. "Whomp." "Whomp? Your given name?" "It's the sound people make when I hit them… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“Like most remarkable things, nobody realized it was remarkable as it happened.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.” — Gene Doucette Accept Copy Share Image
“We just met and we're already doing heroin?" I said. "Seems sudden.” — Gene Doucette Hero Copy Share Image
“(Very few vampires bother to sleep in a coffin, if you must know. Lugging one around everywhere you go is inconvenient, and… — Gene Doucette Coffin Copy Share Image
“Are you trying to talk me out of going?” “I am trying to figure out who you really are.” “Same man I… — Gene Doucette Last night Copy Share Image
“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… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened?" "Exactly." "No quest for truth? Where's your… — Gene Doucette Book Copy Share Image
“...while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that… — Gene Doucette Bad thing Copy Share Image
“(A note: succubi are notorious amateur psychologists and have been since well before Freud. In fact I have it on good authority… — Gene Doucette Freud Copy Share Image
“New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the… — Gene Doucette Homeless people Copy Share Image
“(As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment… — Gene Doucette Bad idea Copy Share Image
“Between you and me, Plato was a hack. All that crap about higher forms and caves? He was drunk when he wrote… — Gene Doucette Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“A point about vampires. They can and do have sex. I've tried it. It's not bad. A little cold, a little dry...… — Gene Doucette Vampires Copy Share Image
“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” — Gene Doucette Civility Copy Share Image
“Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.” — Gene Doucette Close friends Copy Share Image
“If there's one thing I know, it's that the minute someone feels obligated to tell you not to be afraid of them,… — Gene Doucette Afraid Copy Share Image
“[M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever… — Gene Doucette Money Copy Share Image
“[T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people… — Gene Doucette Normal people Copy Share Image
“The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very… — Gene Doucette Animal Copy Share Image
“Like just about everything else conjured up in the past century, the underground subway system of the modern city is an unfathomable… — Gene Doucette Human race Copy Share Image
“To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of… — Gene Doucette Pickup line Copy Share Image
“(Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say "Hey, if we… — Gene Doucette Pretty good Copy Share Image
“The biblical Goliath was also a demon, which should tell you plenty about the accuracy of that little story, because it'd take… — Gene Doucette Friendship Copy Share Image
“I don't understand American football. If you're going to line a bunch of behemoths up in front of a bunch of other… — Gene Doucette American football Copy Share Image
“I'm actually something of an aficionado in the "waking up in strange places" department. I've woken up in hay lofts, under a… — Gene Doucette Strange places Copy Share Image
“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages,… — Gene Doucette Dark ages Copy Share Image
“Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which… — Gene Doucette Circle of life Copy Share Image
“Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.” — Gene Doucette Death Copy Share Image
“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city… — Gene Doucette Change things Copy Share Image
“I may have seemed like things quieted down a bit once we all figured out how to farm, because farming begets society… — Gene Doucette Greater good Copy Share Image
“I'm a pretty sad example of what one should do with eternal life. I've never reached any higher level of consciousness, I… — Gene Doucette Bad luck Copy Share Image
“[W]e took turns removing each other's underwear and I thanked God for twenty-first century clothing. Until you've attempted to undress a Victorian… — Gene Doucette Underwear Copy Share Image