The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

Jasper Fforde


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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Jasper Fforde

Stichwörter: war religion



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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

Jasper Fforde


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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Jasper Fforde


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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Jasper Fforde


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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Jasper Fforde


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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Jasper Fforde


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Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

Jasper Fforde


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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

Jasper Fforde

Stichwörter: humor



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If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.

Jasper Fforde

Stichwörter: economics-guns-butter



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