“ A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens.… Saul Bellow
“ In the political jargon of those days, the word intellectual was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the… Milan Kundera
“ You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?""That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.I felt so sad and so entirely… Flann O'Brien
