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“At least in a democracy we get to choose our own idiots. My”
― Geoff Hill, Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys

“By dark, finally, we came to Qazvin, a pleasant, tree-lined town, which Byron said was noted for homosexuality and stupidity, although not necessarily at the same time.”
― Geoff Hill, Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys

“Hey, listen,’ said Bob, ‘have a great trip. But just be careful around old folks like us – we’re the biggest carriers of Aids in America.’ ‘Yeah, Band-Aids, hearing aids and walking aids,’ said Rich. I”
― Geoff Hill, Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys

“In 2002, BBC jounalists Fergal Keane and Mark Dowd made a documentary for the Panorama programme in which they asked how much Whithall had known about Gukurahundi. Sir Martin Ewans, who was high commissioner in Harare at the time, went on camera to say that his instructions from London were 'to steer clear of it' when speaking to Mugabe.”
― Geoff Hill, What Happens after Mugabe?

“There was no one to pick the apricots, laughter was only a memory, and the swimming pool was as empty as an ayatollah’s heart.”
― Geoff Hill, Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys