Saknussemm Quotes & Sayings

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now? — Alan Lakein

We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet. — Kris Saknussemm

Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say. — Kris Saknussemm

It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did. — James S.A. Corey

The sad truth is very few people will ever be 'for' you in your terms. The bigger question is how many are against you--and still more importantly, how many are against you that you thought were for you? These are the deep insect tunnels that lead to the egg chambers guarded by mindless dark armor. Mandible and leverage. Chemical secretions. — Kris Saknussemm

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts. — Kris Saknussemm

It's a proving ground thing. But once you realize you have responsibilities to others, you go a bit more lightly. My son used to be pure liquid evil in a bar fight. He doesn't go to bars or fight anymore--because he has a wife and a young daughter. If you attacked them, heaven help you--but he is peaceful and Big Picture now unto himself. — Kris Saknussemm

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind. — Kris Saknussemm

Already, I felt the corruption inside me clawing for more. One taste, one touch, one kiss, one fuck. One was all I was permitted. — Pepper Winters

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. — Jefferson Davis

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. — Terry Brooks

Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that. — Kris Saknussemm

Spiral minds are harder to twist. — Kris Saknussemm

One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that is moronic, superficial, contrived, hollow, false and utterly laughable in publishing today. — Kris Saknussemm