"Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead,"

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Kings Quotes #Eye Quotes #Black Quotes

“Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.”
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.”
“I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.”

Source : "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.
“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for anything at all. Hello Kitty never has been, and never will be, anything. She's pure license; you can even get a Hello Kitty car! The branding thing is completely out of control, but it started as nothing and maintains its nothingness. It's not about the ego, and in that way it's very Japanese.”

Source : "Ichiban". www.wired.com. September 01, 2001.
“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”
“One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.”
“The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”

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