Rubaiat

“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum