"If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change."

“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

“Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.”

“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.”

Source : "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

“Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.”

“If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.”

Source : "Iraq: Bush, not Saddam, should quit". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2003.

“There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.”

“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Source : Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press

“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”

Source : Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, 2010.