Professional politicians will say anything, and they’re always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Tigerman’ was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
An enormous amount of a writer’s life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I make up names for people all the time – it’s part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
To my irritation, you still can’t flick through an ebook properly; you can’t riffle the pages, you can’t look at more than one page at once. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people’s choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
We have a curious relationship with ‘funny’ in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I’m an irredeemable urbanite. I can’t imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
