

“Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.”
― Earthly Powers
― Earthly Powers

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters

“What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.”
― Saturday
― Saturday

“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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