"Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game."

“One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.”

Source : "Transcript: CNN interviews Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan". Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

“I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

“As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.”

“What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?”

Source : "In pictures: cutting edge climate science, communication, and kittens from the 2013 AGU conference" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2013.

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

“The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.”

“Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.”

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”