Elar

“Te läänemaade inimesed jääte liiga sageli nääklema selliste asjade kallal nagu näiteks, kas päike on ümmargune või kuum," arutles Amrita. "Ja siis need, kelle meelest päike on ümmargune, kuid mitte kuum, püüavad tappa kõik need inimesed, kes ütlevad, et päike on kuum, aga mitte ümmargune.”
― Risto Isomäki, Sarasvatin hiekkaa

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Globe

“Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock