Finlay Dick

“When I'm writing, I'm more conscious of the sound, actually, than the meaning. I know what the rhythm of the sentence is going to be before I know what the words are going to be in it.”
― Philip Pullman

“Self-respect and kindness to others: that's it. That's how we restore freedom to the galaxy …”
― Robert Webb, How Not to Be a Boy

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. [...] Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.”
― George Orwell

“Once you've got -- actually got -- an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.”
― John Cleese