Ian Apperley

“The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.”
― Nicky Hager, Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand's political environment

“Stories had a way of doing that, in Grillo’s experience. It was his belief that nothing, but nothing, could stay secret, however powerful the forces with interests vested in silence. Conspirators might conspire and thugs attempt to gag but the truth, or an approximation of same, would show itself sooner or later, very often in the unlikeliest form. It was seldom hard facts that revealed the life behind the life. It was rumour, graffiti, strip cartoons and love songs.”
― Clive Barker, The Great And Secret Show

“That’s fucked,” he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“There’s little good in sedentary small towns. Mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil – or worse, a conscious one.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot