Quotes About Author

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

dogs weren't supposed to be at Eastern unless they were guide dogs.

What do you think, boy? Can you pretend to be a service dog?

Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.

The book references whales attacking humans, which has never happened... until July 2020 when orcas started ramming boats off Portugal and Spain. Perhaps some of the book's other predictions will come true.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity.

Fariq took the phone without asking and redialed the number, as if her difficulty might be the result of general female incompetence

It was the most brilliant exhibition of conversational weightlifting that Irene had ever seen.

I want to be back to work next week. 'Let's get you home first. I need to evaluate the extent of your mental impairment.' She tried to flash me the peace sign, but in her weakend condition, she only managed to raise her middle finger.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom,

the country was in upheaval and the townships were on the brink of open warfare, white life went on placidly and undisturbed.

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

the land of their birth; the Urban Areas Act of

Sou o colunista que se repete com um límpido impudor. Não tenho o menor escrúpulo em usar duzentas, trezentas vezes a mesma metáfora.

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.

somewhat resemble Dickens's garbage sifter, who lived in a shack surrounded by mountains of refuse.

shock of black hair. "Or are rangers' sex drives too low?" "IQs are too

Another terrific reason for not having children: it was so disturbing when animals ate them.

A cipher, Anna thought, one of those people who by choice or genetics is incapable of stirring up much emotion.