Terry Pender

“Good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.”
― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

“Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists