“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry Amusing Copy Share Image
“To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.” — Max Barry Customer Copy Share Image
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry Census Copy Share Image
“It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.” — Max Barry Unbearable Copy Share Image
“The newspapers said nobody made it out alive." "Surely you didn't trust them.” — Max Barry Newspapers Copy Share Image
“I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.” — Max Barry Shanks Copy Share Image
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged — Max Barry Mark Copy Share Image
“Companies claimed to be highly responsive, Jennifer thought, but you only had to chase a screaming man through their offices to realize… — Max Barry Wasn True Copy Share Image
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom… — Max Barry Action Copy Share Image
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks… — Max Barry Accent Copy Share Image
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that… — Max Barry Brain Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so… — Max Barry Customer Copy Share Image
“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way… — Max Barry Compromise Copy Share Image
“I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
“These emotional cues were distracting. I was used to arguing with scientists who would explain with perfectly bland faces why you were… — Max Barry Distracting Copy Share Image
“And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing.… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because… — Max Barry Betray Copy Share Image
“Did you tell me to loosen up?” He wiggled the wrench onto the third nut. “Is that funny for some reason?” “When… — Max Barry Desire Copy Share Image
“He had no intention of removing the tumor. It was the perfect solution to his dilemma: how to feed his body’s desire… — Max Barry Trusted God Copy Share Image
“I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective,… — Max Barry Computers Copy Share Image
I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion!… — Max Barry Accepting Copy Share Image
“He shook his head to clear it, but the world grew dark and angry and would not stay upright. The world did… — Max Barry Drugged Copy Share Image
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text… — Max Barry Algorithms Copy Share Image
“This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
“You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half the… — Max Barry Big family Copy Share Image
“What we're doing, or, I should say, what you're doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes… — Max Barry Language Copy Share Image
“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea… — Max Barry Greater good Copy Share Image
“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Book Copy Share Image
“Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the… — Max Barry Business Copy Share Image
“It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that… — Max Barry Self Copy Share Image
“Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a… — Max Barry Slides Copy Share Image
Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look… — Max Barry Cheeseburger Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Dry-humor Copy Share Image
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the… — Max Barry And love Copy Share Image
“ 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'… — Max Barry Lexicon Copy Share Image
“Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job… — Max Barry Sued Copy Share Image
“Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was… — Max Barry Australia Copy Share Image
