"The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability."

“My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.”

“The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.”

“If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.”

“We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.”

“Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.”

“How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.”

“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black

“There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.”