Author: Richard Kadrey

Cites

• Hunter S. Thompson (2)
  • IN: The Everything Box (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don't judge a taco by its price.
    FROM: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, (1971), Novel, US
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: Kill City Blues (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is evident that we are burrying onward to some exciting knowledge -- some never to be imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
    FROM: MS. Found in a Bottle, (1833), Short Story, US
• Al. Capone (1)
  • IN: Kill City Blues (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Kill Society (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Steven Wright (1)
  • IN: The Kill Society (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I got a paper cut writing my suicide note. It's a start.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Devil Said Bang (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To descend into Hell is easy; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air -- There's the rub, the task.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 6, (-19), poem, Italy
• Clint Eastwood (1)
  • IN: Devil Said Bang (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
    FROM: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, (1966), Film, Italy
• Barry Gifford (1)
  • IN: Butcher Bird (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top.
    FROM: Wild at Heart, (1990), Novel, US
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Kill the Dead (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things Abominable, unutterable, and worse . . .
    FROM: Paradise Lost, Book 2, (1667), Poem, UK
• Woody Allen (1)
  • IN: Kill the Dead (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Charles Bukowski (1)
  • IN: Killing Pretty (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely
    FROM: Ham on Rye, (1982), Novel, US/Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Killing Pretty (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.
    FROM: Hoover, Max (lt.), in Mulholland Drive, (1996), Film, US
• Thomas of Celano (1)
  • IN: Sandman Slim (2009) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Just judge of vengeance, grant the gift of forgiveness, before the day of reckoning.
    FROM: Dies Irae, Requiem Mass, (1250), Song, Italy
• William Clayton (1)
  • IN: Sandman Slim (2009) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Cormac McCarthy (1)
  • IN: The Getaway God (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste.
    FROM: The Road, (2006), Novel, US
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: The Getaway God (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only to-day I happen to have a headache."
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK