"If animals could speak, mankind would weep."

“What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.”

“Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.”

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

“He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.”

“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”

“I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

“I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.”

Source : "Jedward look battered and bruised in anti-bullying campaign". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.