Perdido Street Station Quotes

#1. I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

Philip K. Dick

#2. While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

Masaru Emoto

#3. Kaz had tapped his crow's head cane on the flagstones of the tomb floor. "Do you know what Van Eck's problem is?"
"No honor?" said Matthias.
"Rotten parenting skills?" said Nina.
"Receding hairline?" offered Jesper.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it!

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

Orson Welles

#6. 1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.

James Frey

#7. What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Mariano Rivera

#9. I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

David Rakoff

#10. You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

Rajneesh

#11. I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.

Robert M. Pirsig

#12. I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Richard Rogers

#13. I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy

Christopher Fowler

#14. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Edmund Campion

#16. I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

Shelley Winters