"The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily."

“In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.”

“If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.”

“They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.”

“The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

“No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

“I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.”

“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”