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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
Source : "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.
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“In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.”
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“I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.”
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“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”
Source : "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013. 
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“Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.”
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“The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.”
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“No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.”
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“The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”
Source : "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.
