Trevor May

“You gave up the universe for a life on the sofa?’ ‘I didn’t realise that at the time.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“Die Hard is basically a Shakespearean comedy. I never said “Shakespearean comedy” because that would have scared the fucking pants off of studio guys, but that was what I had in mind. A Midsummer’s Night Dream literally is a festival night when some weird thing happens and all the princes become asses and all the asses become princes. In the morning, the true lovers are united, and everybody returns to their regular lives and feels better for having this event where the world got turned upside down. I wanted to use that as the guiding tone. BEAU”
― Brian Abrams, Die Hard: An Oral History

“Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I think you’re going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.’ ‘For what?’ I asked. Nightingale hesitated. ‘Quoting, mainly,’ he said. ‘And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station