Geordie Rome

“People over here don't appreciate physical culture so much. My theory...and all theories should be taken with a bottle of best Scotch...my theory is that it's all to do with the weather. We're not used to the body here. We've developed a whole bunch of ethical idiosyncracies to cope with such. We behave like squeezed lemons, I reckon.' (p 84, Flex, Or, A novel Exposing Johnny Stone's Adventures in Muscleland)”
― GEORDIE ROME

“I'm not a skinhead, I'm not a punk, I'm not a rocker - I'm a funky monk.”
― Geordie Rome

“Johnny Stone sat alone on a railway station bench. Watched the endless interchange of people on the platform before him. Looked like they knew where they were going – but just looked like they knew it. Nobody really knew where he or she was going to. Everybody – including Johnny himself – was presented with chance. Chance led to choice. Then choice led to chance again. ‘Luck’ was another name for taking your chances and making the right choices. End of.”
― GEORDIE ROME

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.”
― William S Burroughs