Michael Macdonald

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as the years went by they found themselves less and less able to tolerate actual human beings, those obstinate creatures who were always resistant, refusing to do what they were told to and, besides, demanding something for themselves.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“Sir Peter Tapsell: ‘You cannot ask the British Prime Minister to autograph a bottle of table wine. You really cannot.’ ‘It is English,’ I bleated. ‘Non-vintage?’ ‘Er … yes.’ ‘Good God, what is the party coming to?”
― Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries

“Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.”
― Michael Dibdin, Ratking

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange