Naqib

“The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.”
― Keigo Higashino, Malice

“Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”
― Sidney Sheldon

“There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War