Simon Kernick Quotes

#1. You're never so alive as when you're on the verge of death.

Simon Kernick

#2. Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book

Charles Dickens

#3. Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.

Simon Kernick

#4. Dennis, please. I don't know what-"
"Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.

Simon Kernick

#5. What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

Paul Valery

#6. I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being honest when I say I truly never wanted to become a murderer.

Simon Kernick

#7. To make change sustain, the important thing is "end-to-end" performance.

Pearl Zhu

#8. Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

Maurice Samuel

#9. I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

Lysette Anthony

#10. The noble-minded do not thrust others aside in order to make their way in the world. But then they themselves are ultimately thrust aside by the advancing tide.

Takashi Hiraide

#11. The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Simon Kernick

#12. The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Spider Robinson

#13. They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

Bruno Schulz