Michel Faber Quotes

How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow.“Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn’t have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.