"...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside."

“It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.”

Source : "11 Epic Ways Love, Bravery & Audacity Transform Your Life" by Maimah Karmo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2017.

“If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.”

“Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.”

“I don't really think so much of what kind of man I am. I just do what I like and enjoy, and let other people think what they want.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com

“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”

Source : Bryan Sykes (2010). “The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.”

“Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.”