It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
John LanchesterThe City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.
John LanchesterThe financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
John LanchesterIt can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.
John Lanchester