"Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat."

“We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.”

“I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.”

“I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.”

Source : "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

“I am the vampire at my own veins.”

“Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.”

“Man is nature as much as the trees.”

“Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.”

“Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.”