Christopher Barclay

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves