Nick Harkaway Quotes

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.

Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.

What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes, " he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.