10 Quotes by Geoff Nicholson

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.

Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

I held her feet in my hands.

Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.

A lot of people measure a man by what he’s got. I’ve decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you’re doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.