Bryant & May and the Burning Man Quotes

“Do you enjoy reading?’ ‘I enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey.’ Bryant quailed at the thought. ‘That’s not really reading, is it? More like staring at an assortment of words.’ ‘It is very popular.’ ‘So is taking photographs of your dinner for Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it adds to the total sum of human knowledge.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“No more sending your clothes over to forensics to be dry-cleaned, no more running up kebab tabs on stakeouts and no more pawning items from the Evidence Room until payday.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“And this is true of all terrible crimes; it’s the victims who must be respected and honoured, not the murderers,”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“The tax authorities go after small firms and individuals instead of the worst avoiders.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“It’s what we find with most conspiracies—they only exist because somebody wants them to.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“There are plenty of officers infiltrating the protestors and making lists of contacts,”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“We no longer whip people through the streets. Instead we send them to executive-level open jails for a few months’ R&R before they hire PR teams to restore their reputations. Fraud, perjury, perverting the course of justice count as nothing,”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“We’re raising the retirement age to seventy but at work you’re a has-been at forty”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“To be tricked into thinking that you have freedom is worse than being told what to do.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“Poor old George Orwell got it hopelessly wrong, forever worrying about state control when he should have been more afraid of the opposite. The political parties absented themselves and became mere functionaries for the real centre of power—the banks.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“The big companies dictate the terms and use their lawyers as henchmen.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“The urban middle class destroyed, the working poor exploited, the vulgar rich elevated to eminence, the underclass demonised, the wasteland of celebrity held in veneration.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“Some of us need more protection than others.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“This might have something to do with the fact that every half-decent flat in the area has been snapped up by war criminals shovelling their loose change into safe havens.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“hate what I see around me, Arthur. The urban middle class destroyed, the working poor exploited, the vulgar rich elevated to eminence, the underclass demonised, the wasteland of celebrity held in veneration.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man

“Rage, rage”!’ shouted Bryant, picking up his walking stick and waving it like a pirate cutlass. ‘“Rage against the dying of the light”!’ ‘Has he been at the sherry?’ Renfield looked nonplussed. ‘No,’ said May wearily, ‘he’s been at the Dylan Thomas. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of him.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Burning Man

“Look at the state of you. Get some of those wet clothes off and chuck them on the radiator.’ ‘Do you always boil a saucepan of sprouts for at least two hours?’ Bryant asked. ‘What?’ said May, thrown. ‘No.’ ‘Good, then you’re not my mother.’ He struggled out of his overcoat and found that his damp brown sweater had lengthened dramatically.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Burning Man

“Old age should burn and rave at close of day.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Burning Man