The stranger (who was of course the Cruso I told you of). - J. M. Coetzee

Because Costello is his mother’s maiden name, and because he has never seen any reason to broadcast his connection with her, it was not known at the time of the invitation that Elizabeth Costello, the Australian writer, had a family connection in the Appleton community. He would have preferred that state of affairs to continue.”

If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

There is nothing to link me with torturers, people who sit waiting like beetles in dark cellars.