Sean Devine

“here we are wasting our time writing a book that will be
completely redundant within twelve months. An obsolete artefact. It's
only use being a bit of a social history that records the aspirations
of a certain strata in British society in the late eighties. Nothing
that any Sunday supplement advertisement could not already tell them.
It's obvious that in a very short space of time the Japanese will have
delivered the technology and then brought the price of it down so that
you can do the whole thing at home.”
― Jimmy Cauty, The Manual

“Tobacco’s a killer,” Kafuku said. “Being alive is a killer, if you think about it,” Misaki said.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women: Stories

“As with most people who are well raised, well educated, and financially secure, Dr. Tokai only thought of himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women: Stories

“Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor