Quotes from Declan Burke

An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.

Anyway, that was all a long time ago.' 'So was the Big Bang,

Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn't need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.

The man at the foot of my bed is too sharply dressed to be anything but a lawyer or a pimp.

Now my future is all behind me …