“However bogus their politics and their music, the punk generation’s cynicism at least was real, and honestly come by.”

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“The example of the UK’s British Motor Corporation, a helpless guinea pig for government experiments in centralized resource allocation, was never followed in Sweden. Volvo, Saab and other private businesses were left free to flourish or fail.”

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“It was one thing to sneer knowingly at Stalin, now long dead and anyway condemned by his own heirs. It was quite another to acknowledge that the fault lay not in the man but the system. And to go further, to impute responsibility for the crimes and misdemeanors of Leninism to the project of radical utopianism itself was to mine the very buttresses of modern politics.”

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“There’s something so true about this genre when done correctly that I will fight anybody that gets in a true practitioner of this art form’s way, because I know you’re wrong.”

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“One hundred years after the Dreyfus Affair, fifty years after the apotheosis of Jean-Paul Sartre, Europe’s leading intellectuals had thrown a petition—and no-one came.”

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In a reality set in the near future, most people have a ‘grain’ implanted behind their ear that records everything they do, see or hear. This allows memories to be played back either in front of the person’s eyes or on a screen, a process known as a ‘re-do’.

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“I am not saying it’s impossible to find love. All I’m saying is that statistically you have not.”

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“In the end the primary responsibility for the Yugoslav catastrophe must rest with the Serbs and their elected leader Slobodan Milošević.”

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Most Canadians live in big cities like Toronto and Montreal. We produce almost all of your new jobs. We pay the vast majority of your taxes. And yet we’re forever at the mercy of provincial leaders who disparage us whenever they’re not ignoring us.

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