“In what direction did lost men veer?”
—cormac mccarthy, THE ROAD
June 1, 2013
May 26, 2013
“My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple.”
- joseph heller, SOMETHING HAPPENED
May 17, 2013
"Why am I despising you when I’m about to change your life?"
— john le carré, THE CONSTANT GARDENER
May 8, 2013
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April 24, 2013
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”
— douglas coupland, GENERATION X
April 8, 2013
“It’s 1988 now. Margaret Thatcher is entering her third term of office and talking confidently of an unbroken Conservative leadership well into the next century. My youngest daughter is seven and the tabloid press are circulating the idea of concentration camps for persons with AIDS. The new riot police wear black visors, as do their horses, and their vans have rotating video cameras mounted on top. The government has expressed a desire to eradicate homosexuality, even as an abstract concept, and one can only speculate as to which minority will be the next legislated against. I’m thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon, sometime over the next couple of years. It’s cold and it’s mean spirited and I don’t like it here any more.
Good night England. Good night Home Service and V for Victory.
Hello the Voice of Fate and V FOR VENDETTA.”
- alan moore, in his 1988 introduction to the first collected V FOR VENDETTA
April 3, 2013
"It was an interesting combination in a man: intelligence and sheer bulk."
— ian mcewan, ATONEMENT
March 24, 2013
“…my life isn’t complicated at all…It stretched all the way to early retirement, a whip-round from the people in the office, a bright little neat flat somewhere, a neat little empty death.”
- terry pratchett & neil gaiman, GOOD OMENS
March 2, 2013
“What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
- anthony burgess, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
February 4, 2013
"You told her everything. I look at you and see it in your face. It’s the worst thing you can do in a marriage…You understand it’s not a matter of strategy. I’m not talking about secrets or deceptions. I’m talking about being yourself. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."
— don dellilo, POINT OMEGA
January 26, 2013
"It’s healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line."
— don dellilo, POINT OMEGA
January 17, 2013
"It has occurred to me that there are months or years of my own life that were so unwitnessed that I could make up as many outrageous stories as I wanted, and nobody could refute them."
— stephen beachy, WHO IS JT LEROY? THE TRUE IDENTITY OF A GREAT LITERARY HUSTLER, ny magazine, 2005
January 15, 2013
“I just don’t want be part of people’s lives.”
- warren ellis, GUN MACHINE
January 10, 2013
"I have to write an opening sentence."
— william gibson, when asked how he begins a novel. paris review, 2011 (link via)
[i’m writing on a fucking kindle. fucking shoot me.]
January 7, 2013
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