Quotes About Author

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat.

You could at least complain," I say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said.

I adore complaining— it calms the nerves

I very much like Kristin Cashore's books. I like Catherine Fisher's Incarceron ; it may be a bit more complicated then the books I tend to love, but I liked the characters very much. I loved the Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve; those are fantastic! Then Jonathan Stroud also; I love, love, love the Bartimaeus series. Those are so witty and so smart. I love the demon Bartimaeus and I love his footnotes; I love everything about him.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.

There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come.

Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions.

slavery is opposed to work...work presupposes liberty, responsibility, and consciousness...the more intelligence you bring to your work, the more pleasure you will have in it.

motives are entirely new. One paradox

Self-criticism has been much talked about recently, but few realize that it was first of all an African institution.

Those values which seemed to ennoble the soul prove worthless because they have nothing in common with the real-life struggle in which the people are engaged.

nationalism is not explained, enriched, and deepened, if it does not very quickly turn into a social and political consciousness, into humanism, then it leads to a dead-end."23

To politicize the masses is to make the nation in its totality a reality for every citizen. To make the experience of the nation, the experience of every citizen. (140)

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

the past decade or more. The term originated in the film The Philadelphia

Bush might have gone for the idea a few years earlier, but he was tiring of Cheney's relentless hawkishness.