"Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God."

“The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.”

“Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.”

“We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.”

Source : "Texas reserve offers safari-like experience" By Stephanie Oswald, www.cnn.com. February 16, 2001.

“Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.”

“I didn’t like to dress up in high school. I wore pajamas all the time. Or I would have my hair in a high bun from dance, and just wear dance clothes.””

“...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.”