Matt

“Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what it’s about, but forty is an adolescence where one sleeps to grow up or to stay young.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“In the breaking of tragic news there is no transition. One minute a concept stands; the next it lies smashed, and for those affected the world has altered irrevocably”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“All you ever were was a piece of the universe thinking to itself”
― Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy