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And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. — Nick Harkaway

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life. — Nick Harkaway

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. — Nick Harkaway

There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason. — Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. — Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. — Nick Harkaway

I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives. — Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. — Nick Harkaway

I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts — Nick Harkaway

Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not. — Nick Harkaway

The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road. — Nick Harkaway

All my characters are me, in one way or another. — Nick Harkaway

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. — Nick Harkaway

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own. — Nick Harkaway

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other. — Nick Harkaway

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

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery. — Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out. — Nick Harkaway

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it. — Nick Harkaway

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began. — Nick Harkaway

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means. — Nick Harkaway

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware. — Nick Harkaway

When the time comes to work, I work. — Nick Harkaway

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate. — Nick Harkaway

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. — Nick Harkaway

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried. — Nick Harkaway

Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping? — Nick Harkaway

An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating. — Nick Harkaway

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged. — Nick Harkaway

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work. — Nick Harkaway

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. — Nick Harkaway

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble. — Nick Harkaway

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you. — Nick Harkaway

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy. — Nick Harkaway

You must come, Lester," Inoue had said. "You must come! We will cry for this place, but also we will dance the Funky Chicken. — Nick Harkaway

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is. — Nick Harkaway

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes. — Nick Harkaway

She dances in the water. Perhaps that was as good as life got, after all. — Nick Harkaway

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great. — Nick Harkaway

I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid. — Nick Harkaway

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

Bones were not strong just because they were the strongest thing a human body had. — Nick Harkaway

Knowledge is not just power - it is control. — Nick Harkaway

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV. — Nick Harkaway

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. — Nick Harkaway

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. — Nick Harkaway

A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant. — Nick Harkaway

When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim. — Nick Harkaway

He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that. — Nick Harkaway

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil. — Nick Harkaway

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. — Nick Harkaway

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. — Nick Harkaway

It's a Shit Creek tsunami, is what it is. Paddles are no longer the issue. — Nick Harkaway

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats. — Nick Harkaway

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. — Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve. — Nick Harkaway

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'. — Nick Harkaway

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no. — Nick Harkaway

They seemed to believe that the right mixture of Nike, granola and hard work would turn anyone, anywhere in the world, into a millionaire. — Nick Harkaway

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one. — Nick Harkaway

The biggest lie was that the world worked the way it was supposed to, and having seen through it, Matthew Spork was free. — Nick Harkaway

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured. — Nick Harkaway

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player. — Nick Harkaway

I thought about my personal version of heaven, which is small and calm and features only one angel, who cannot sing. — Nick Harkaway

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass. — Nick Harkaway

I'm really sorry I ate your dog. — Nick Harkaway

Annabelle growls tunelessly, like a bear hibernating on a bassoonist. — Nick Harkaway

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method. — Nick Harkaway

Bollocks to should. — Nick Harkaway

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. — Nick Harkaway

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all. — Nick Harkaway

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you're trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don't, though. I'm me and I'm good at it. — Nick Harkaway

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion. — Nick Harkaway

Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies. — Nick Harkaway

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. — Nick Harkaway

Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl. — Nick Harkaway

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end. — Nick Harkaway

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler. — Nick Harkaway

Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men. — Nick Harkaway

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that. — Nick Harkaway

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it. — Nick Harkaway

That's probably why she has added the two severed heads to the uprights of the throne. They lend her an undeniable air of not screwing around. — Nick Harkaway

Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster. — Nick Harkaway

Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead. — Nick Harkaway

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. — Nick Harkaway

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. — Nick Harkaway

He'd never prove it, and if he did there'd be nothing he could do about it. But it would be true, and that was something. — Nick Harkaway

'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai. — Nick Harkaway

Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else? — Nick Harkaway

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth! — Nick Harkaway

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them. — Nick Harkaway

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