Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's Quotes

“They forget that the CIA is all about collecting information. Information for other people to act on. If you join the CIA expecting a life of laser guns, ju-jitsu and exotic STDs, bear in mind that your only contact with them may come through the pages of The Lancet and Popular Mechanics.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“I can't say I'm flourishing, exactly - my complexion is flour-ish and that's about it - but I'm surviving, and things could be a lot worse.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“Whetstone is providing a social service by allowing dozens of overeducated postgrads to do what they do best - sit around all day, read, smoke, moan, drink coffee, write one-paragraph essays - and get paid for it. It's like university, except without the cheap beer and bad sex.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“He was the first one to realize you can live alongside someone, day in, day out, habituate yourself to their foibles, even find those foibles endearing, then suddenly the day arrives when you realize that you never knew them at all. That they were stringing you along without any concern that you might value their friendship, their company.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“Embrace interesting times. Interesting times bring opportunities. Opportunities for improvement, for creation, for destruction of the tired old ways.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“People don't like change. They get suspicious.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

“Frank says the wheel is man's greatest invention, only he doesn't mean for transportation, he means for torture.”
― Jay Spencer Green, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's