I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Death Readers Readers And Writers Writers

Boy, you're good at figuring things out. Isn't he? Except that if anybody's the devil in this room it's _you_, buster. An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. I've seen you before. I know you, all right, preacher man. Age after age, you come back. You always lead the crusades. You're so damned golden-tongued, other people just flock to die for your causes. You die with them, it's true, because you're stupid enough to believe your own great lies; but you always come back again somehow. Oh, I know _you_.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Evil History Religion

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Genre History Human Experience Past And Future Past And Present Science Fiction Sf

If you ordered up a whore here, you'd probably get a theater major doing Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson. I wonder what would happen if I ordered up a Hershey bar? His eyes lit up for a moment. I wonder what would happen if I ordered up a whore and a Hershey bar?

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Comedy Humor Science Fiction

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker History Pain Moon

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Time Generation Successful

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Love Culture Powerful