Matt Rees Professions : Novelist Born : 1967 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Matt Rees Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated. Matt Rees choices want love-is Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission. Matt Rees cells blow people Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors