Gianrico Carofiglio Quotes & Sayings

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Somebody once said that all people are either intelligent or stupid, and either lazy or enterprising. There are lazy idiots, usually irrelevant and innocuous; then there are the intelligent and ambitious, who can be given important tasks to perform. The greatest achievements, in all fields, are nearly always the work of those intelligent and lazy. But one thing should be kept in mind: the most dangerous category, the people who are unfailingly responsible for the most appalling disasters, the ones you have to avoid at all costs, are enterprising idiots. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity. — Gianrico Carofiglio

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.] — Gianrico Carofiglio