“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky, and see faces, lost cities,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case to myself,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green. — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...” — Michael Frayn Copy Share
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now. — Michael Frayn Copy Share
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums” — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life’s over. Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we’re gone… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
“The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite… — Michael Frayn Copy Share
