84 Quotes by Adrian McKinty

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.

You ever read Thucydides? I’ll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue’s ‘I should be so lucky’... By the song’s second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike.

George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won’t be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights.

They have all sipped from the Drink Me bottle. They have all unwound the clew of red thread. They have all fallen through the looking glass.

Number one: you are not the first and you will certainly not be the last. Number two: remember, it’s not about the money – it’s about The Chain.

Ideally, the business and the personal should never mix, but with human beings there’s always going to be some blurring of the lines.