John

“Those who write the rules rarely suffer their weight.”
― Mick Herron, Spook Street

“Nothing more frightening, to someone who’d lived by his wits, than to be slowly losing them.”
― Mick Herron, Spook Street

“I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy