Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they’ll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they’ll simply issue us with air tickets and we’ll do whatever we’re told.
Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. – Pg. 195.
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Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.
Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early – exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible.
He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They’re too big, too fast. I think that’s quite scary.
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
Politics is never a victory, it’s just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
My greatest regret as a writer is that I’ve never been able to include as many jokes as I’d like.
It’s when you’ve stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you’re asleep, that the real work is done.
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
Don’t try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.