Ten down.... now onto the other forty
1 - I,Lucifer Glen Duncan: "Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from."
2 - The Road Cormac McCarthy: “Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
3 - Long walk to freedom Nelson Mandela: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
4 - Lamb: The gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal Christopher Moore: “Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
5 - Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein: "In a mixed ship [men and women] the last thing a trooper hears before a drop (maybe the last word he ever hears) is a woman's voice, wishing him luck. If you don't think this is important you've probably resigned from the human race.”
6 - 1984 George Orwell: “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
7 - Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury: “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
8 - Nevermind the Pollacks Neal Pollack: From the 'Suggested Discussion questions' at the back of the book " Aren't you tired of every goddamn New York band naming Gang of Four as one of their influences? Have you head a Gang of Four song? What does it sound like? Because honestly I don't know. Also please explain the Joy Division revival. Joy Division? God. And now Morrissey is all hot shit again. Whine. Whine, whine, whine. Make your own music, pussies."
9 - The Shining Stephen King: Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
10 - The real Frank Zappa book Frank Zappa: The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.”