“Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.” — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff.… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.” — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
