Stephen > Stephen's Quotes

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
― Philip Larkin

“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”
― Imam Al-Ghazzali

“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man