"They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever.""

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”

“Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.”

“Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.”

Source : Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

“Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.”

“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

“vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.”

“Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.”

“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”