“The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.”
“I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy”
“Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.”
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some resemblance, some part of myself, like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror.”
“Islamic conquest " the greatest historical event in the gates of greatness. No event resembles it in the history of East and West, the old history and the new one”