26 quotes found
“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
“Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?”
“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.”
“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
“I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.”
“Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.”
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripp...”
“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.”
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn p...”
“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”
“Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?”
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were...”
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan”
“The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerad...”
“What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!”
“There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.”
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.”
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.”
“If youre in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book youre reading, its fate all the way.”
“This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.”
“But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.”
