Selman

“Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a defensive crouch, a hundred-year-old relationship, bewilderment that an enormous force controls your life but does not know or love you.”
― Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

“I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them”
― Irvine Welsh, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

“— I'm just interested in women, Brian
— So am I, Kibby whined in urgent complaint.
— You think you are, but you're not. You read sci-fi magazines, for fuck sakes.
— I am! What I read's got nowt tae dae wi it! Kibby blurted.
Skinner shook his head. — You're not curious about girls, other than sexually. I know you fancied Shannon, but you never talked to her about anything that she might have been interested in, you just inflickted your own shite about video games and hillwalking clubs on to her.”
― Irvine Welsh

“I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
― Linus Torvalds