Nick Harkaway Quotations

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.