Mark Mills > Quotes

“It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Things can make sense at the time, but as you get older those consolations no longer help you sleep. It's the only thing I've learned. We all think we know the answer, and we're all wrong. Shit, I'm not sure we even know what the question is.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“These sculptors consituteted a new movement, he claimed. Not for them the bald abstraction of their predecessors. Their creations were rooted in a postwar world of broken buildings and broken people. Their language was one of terror and trepidation. They tore into the human form, flaying it, tearing it limb from limb, discarding what they didn’t want. And when they were done, they found themselves presenting to the world an army of creatures—part man, part beast, and sometimes part machine. As one of Harry’s teachers at Corsham had said to him: ‘When you’ve seen the inside of a Sherman tank after a direct hit, it all becomes the same thing.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“t's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals.”
― Mark Mills, Waiting for Doggo

“Adam searched out old friends from the neighborhood. They drank beer together in the garden of the Stag & Hounds, trading stories and trying their best to ignore the inescapable truth - that the ties that once bound them were loosening by the year and might soon be gone altogether.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Maybe you’re looking for halos and wings when you should be looking for other things.”
― Mark Mills, Waiting for Doggo

“I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.”
― Mark Mills, Waiting for Doggo

“It's not good...Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“After a few minutes there was a click on the line and a voice said in Farsi,"Goh Benares roo gahbret."
This roughly translated as: "May shit rain down upon your grave."
"Goozidam too chesmet," Tom replied.
"I fart in your eye.”
― Mark Mills, House of the Hunted

“Men are as men are. Why should they change?”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Beware the man who tells you he knows what’s best for you; he usually starts by stealing your rights.”
― Mark Mills, Where Dead Men Meet

“To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.”
― Mark Mills, The Information Officer

“girl”
― Mark Mills, Impact

“The rest of dinner was an ordeal. When Adam looked at Signora Docci, he saw Professor Leonard; when he looked at Antonella, he saw himself kissing her in the garden; and when he looked at Harry, he found himself wondering if one of them had been adopted.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Police," I say.
"Let's see your badge."
"I'm undercover. And I'm going to need that as evidence."
She hands me the spiff. I take a drag. "Yep, it's the real deal. You're busted.”
― Mark Mills, Waiting for Doggo

“He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a shred of cloth could have so much destructive power locked away in it.”
― Mark Mills, The Information Officer

“What is a unicorn without his horn?" (Antonella)
"A white horse?" (Adam)
Antonella smiled. "A very unhappy white horse.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“I feel," he replied, "like a sweaty Englishman molesting a naked statue in the presence of a complete stranger." - Adam”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“Here! Turn left, I know a short cut through Barons Court."
We spend the next twenty minutes mired in roadworks in Barons Court with a bunch of other people who know Edie's short cut.”
― Mark Mills, Waiting for Doggo