"I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986."

-- Wendy Cope

“At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.”
“My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'”
“I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.”
“Paint what you see, not what you know.”
“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.”
“It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.”

Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.37, Open Road Media
“As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.”

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