527 Quotes by Ian McEwan

Only two sexes. I was disappointed. If human bodies, minds, fates are so complex, if we are free like no other mammal, why limit the range?

I’ve heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness. To avoid serious damage a simple.

And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an age of powdered wigs, a constitution as unchallengeable as the Koran. Its nervous population obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun. Africa.

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I’ve always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we’re not a separate tribe.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State.

I’m close to my mother’s heart and know its rhythms and sudden turns. And now! It accelerates at her husband’s voice, and there’s an added sound, a disturbance in the chambers, like the distant rattling of maracas, or gravel shuffled softly in a tin. From down here I’d say it’s a semilunar valve whose cusps are snapping to hard and sticking. Or it could be her teeth.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you’re inside them.

I wouldn’t mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don’t play the guitar.

Early in my conscious life one of my fingers, not then subject to my influence, brushed past a shrimp-like protuberance between my legs. And though shrimp and fingertip lay at differing distances from my brain, they felt each other simultaneously, a diverting issue in neuroscience known as the binding problem.