Quotes by : Paul Murray

There’s no escaping it,” he’d been fond of telling us when he was well, “the way you look defines....

None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end,....

People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality....

I don’t mind crack,” I said. “I like crack as much as the next man. But it’s not doing a thing....

I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative....

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider.....

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance....

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway.....

It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it.....