„All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.“

— Diana Gabaldon
„Do not let the bastards grind you down.“
— Margaret Atwood
„I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.“
— George Raymond Richard Martin
„I believe you, Sadie.""Oh really. I'm holding the bloody feather of truth, and you believe me. Well, thanks.“
— Rick Riordan
„See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too;-)“
— Linus Torvalds