Max Barry

“You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.”

— Max Barry

“I’m Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!”

— Max Barry

“She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again.”

— Max Barry

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

— Max Barry

“He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die.”

— Max Barry

“Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.”

— Max Barry

“He went to rub his eyes and missed.”

— Max Barry

“Stop believing what you want to believe. It’s unbecoming”

— Max Barry

“To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.”

— Max Barry

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a…

— Max Barry

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

— Max Barry

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

— Max Barry

“It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have…

— Max Barry

“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You…

— Max Barry

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

— Max Barry

“I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.”

— Max Barry

“Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so…

— Max Barry

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that…

— Max Barry

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks…

— Max Barry

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom…

— Max Barry

“It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that…

— Max Barry

“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

“Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the…

— Max Barry

“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

“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

“He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting…

— Max Barry

“ 'Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway.…

— Max Barry

“Did you tell me to loosen up?” He wiggled the wrench onto the third nut. “Is that funny for some reason?” “When…

— Max Barry

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

Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but…

— Max Barry

“In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful.…

— Max Barry

“He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard…

— Max Barry

“I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover the…

— Max Barry

“She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s got to be in charge…

— Max Barry

“ Your site isn't static. It's dynamically generated. Do you know what that means ?" "No." "It means the site looks different…

— Max Barry

“This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to…

— Max Barry

“Of course, human tissue completely It's unlikely that scar was composed of the same molecules. Do you think it is really appropriate…

— Max Barry

“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea…

— Max Barry

“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

“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