527 Quotes by Ian McEwan

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.

But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town.

He always had a paperback book, usually history, in his jacket pocket in case he found himself in a queue or a waiting room. He marked what he read with a pencil stub.

Thing is, we could discuss it out loud in front of the gentlemen over there, or you could get off my case and make a pleasant farewell. That is to say, fuck off.

La folla è una creatura lenta e un po' idiota, di gran lunga meno intelligente degli individui che la compongono.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.