Book Quotes

And so, the most accidental of chance made it the core, the focus of the avant-garde literary movement, the wildest on the memory of mankind.

Real horror is when you see something familiar, but so changed that you hardly recognize it.

Soon it's gonna rain, soon it's gonna freeze
Soon it's gonna blow all the moss off all
the goddamn trees.

Above all, if we want to combat terrorism effectively we must realise that nothing the terrorists do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to the terrorist provocations.

Terrorists undertake an impossible mission: to change the political balance of power through violence, despite having no army. To achieve their aim, terrorists present the state with an impossible challenge of their own: to prove that it can protect all its citizens from political violence, anywhere, any time. The terrorists hope that when the state tries to fulfil this impossible mission, it will reshuffle the political cards, and hand them some unforeseen ace.

Because we intuitively understand that terrorism is theatre, we judge it by its emotional rather than material impact.

Most people don’t know themselves very well. When I was twenty-one, I finally realised that I was gay, after several years of living in denial. That’s hardly exceptional. Many gay men spend their entire teenage years unsure about their sexuality.

When you start your journey from the end of a snake’s tail,
You will end up on its head in an ocean of poison.

There is a way out of even the worst trouble and danger if we keep faith.

The system works depends on the people overseeing it.

They can stop us going to school but they can’t stop us learning.