Quotes About Coetzee

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?

No tengo razones y no lo sigo. No tengo razones para nada. Tú eres el que tiene razones.

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

My case rests on the rights of desire,' he says. 'On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.