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“The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I think, said 'when you're in love, you want to tell the world.' And who, on understanding a scientific view of reality, would not, as it were, fall in love and want to tell the world.”
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“I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.”
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“Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.”
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“I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.”
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“The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.”
Source : James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.298
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“Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.”
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“In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.”
Source : "Hitler and the Final Solution". Book by Gerald Fleming, p. 137, 1987.
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“Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.”
