I Shot the Buddha Quotes

“But this was real life, so there was no argument to be had.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“something similar. Or you cooked for everyone and everyone went food shopping. No reason at all for heart palpitations over a missing radish.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“It occurred to him he was drunk as a flock of bridesmaids.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“And love?” asked the Sangharaj. “The ultimate compromise,” said Siri. “It’s so important to have a partner that we cut and shape our tastes and likes and dislikes and go to great lengths to tolerate differences. We do this so we have someone beside us.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“Faith should be at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We’re so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha

“It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.”
― Colin Cotterill, I Shot the Buddha