Quotes About J.M. Coetzee

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

detectaba en los ojos de los babuinos mayores los aguijonazos de la melancolía, el nacimiento de la conciencia incipiente de su mortalidad.

At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.