Jack

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”
― Rebecca Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

“What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not, usually, that the writer has invented something without precedent, but that she has made us "perceive" what we already, in a conceptual sense, "know", by deviating from the conventional, habitual ways of representing reality. Defamiliarization, in short, is another word for "originality". I shall have recourse to it again in these glances at the art of fiction.”
― David Lodge, The Art of Fiction

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock