

“One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel

“Everyone tells lies to get what they want. First of all we tell lies to ourselves and then we tell them to everyone else. That's what the past becomes - a kind of flower bed in which you're uprooting and replanting all the time.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth

“Sex is the great equaliser in life. Whether you're rich or poor, smart or stupid, beautiful or ugly, the pleasure pitch of erogenous zones, the quality of orgasm is not affected. Sex gives everyone equal opportunity.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth

“I'm no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel

“I've always loved walking through cities at dawn. The sense it gives you of entering into a new existence with a clean slate.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
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