If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live? - Nadine Gordimer

Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

Anyone who lives within a mile of the zoo hears lions on summer nights. A tourist could be fooled. Africa already; at last, even though he went to bed in yet another metropole.