129 Quotes by Tom Holt

New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I’ve managed to grow out of.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don’t and haven’t, but that’s my problem.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance.

I don’t read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot.

All computers expect to be yelled at. There’s not a single computer in the whole world that hasn’t been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope’s desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that’d make a Marine blush.

A romantic, I think the word is. Latin for idiot.

The world is full of interiors that bleach the spirit. Hospitals, police stations, job centres, local government offices and prisons all have their own subtle type of vampire colour scheme and black-hole furnishing, capable by accident or design of wiping away a person’s self-esteem and will to resist, like boiled-over soup off a ceramic hob.