Max Barry Quotes

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best...

All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opp...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a p...

What was it Like?""What was what like?" he said, although he knew."Quick, I imagine. But you must ha...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G...

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, som...

'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have...

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by...

She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s ...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I m...

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your bra...

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Pow...

Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a d...

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, abor...

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchan...

Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products a...

In my city we spent $1.6 billion on a new ticketing system for the trains. We replaced paper tickets...

You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted...

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they ...

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with bloo...

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover ...

I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover t...

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. "Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America i...

There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the fl...

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half th...