"To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself."

“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (2017). “Agua Viva”, p.15, Penguin UK

“A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.”

Source : Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

“Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.”

“The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.”

“Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.”