I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out.…

- Nick Harkaway

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

- Nick Harkaway

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, th…

- Nick Harkaway

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

- Nick Harkaway

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

- Nick Harkaway

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

- Nick Harkaway

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

- Nick Harkaway

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

- Nick Harkaway

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible,…

- Nick Harkaway