Odin Quotes

“debonair air of savoir-faire.”
― David Archer, Odin

“stuff.” Inspector Baccay shook his head. “So what?” “Ed has,” Jay shrugged and spread his hands, “emotional issues. And the only way he can sleep”
― David Archer, Odin

“Cafés used to be unique places for unique minds, now they are standardized places for standardized minds.”
― David Archer, Odin

“And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.”
― David Archer, Odin

“flexible as the IRS.”
― David Archer, Odin

“She leaned forward and put her elbows on the table. “We are a little bit different in Israel, Mason. In Britain, the USA, women try hard to be more men than the men, more aggressive than men, more powerful and assertive than men. My theory is that they do that because there is nothing much else left to do in the modern world save fantasize, and because your society no longer has any need for men. ​“But Israel is not like that. We face the threat of extinction every day when we rise to work, and every night when we go to bed. We are surrounded on three sides by people who want to extinguish us from the face of the Earth, just because we are Jewish. Women join the army in Israel, not because we have to—though we do have to—and not because we want to prove we are equal or better than men. We join the army to fight for our survival, for the survival of our families and our children. You understand?” ​She waited for me to answer. I didn’t so she went on. ​“And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.” ​I nodded. “I understand.” ​She looked vaguely surprised. “Really? I don’t need to fight you or break your arm?” ​I smiled. “I wouldn’t recommend trying, but you don’t need to do it, no.”
― David Archer, Odin

“Odin One Eye,” she said as she dialed. “The god of war and magic.”
― David Archer, Odin

“If routine is the reason I am still alive, my cat is probably the reason I am still single.”
― David Archer, Odin

“With so many people, democracy is impossible, and corruption is so easy.”
― David Archer, Odin

“There is no time in the mind,”
― David Archer, Odin

“enough Freudian psychoanalysis to know that we never really overcome the damage they do to us when we are small. The baggage we take with us to the grave is the same baggage our parents hand us just after we are born. This was the narrative”
― David Archer, Odin

“​The point of a plan was to let you know where you’re going, and fool you into believing you know how you are going to get there.”
― David Archer, Odin

“Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.”
― David Archer, Odin

“​Dr. Edward Ulysses Hampton had read enough Freudian psychoanalysis to know that we never really overcome the damage they do to us when we are small. The baggage we take with us to the grave is the same baggage our parents hand us just after we are born.”
― David Archer, Odin