"Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant."

“With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart's preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.”

“A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.”

“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”

“Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.”

“Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.144, Macmillan

“It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.”

“Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.”