Dwight Agan

“The word octopus is derived from Greek and not Latin, so the correct plural is not octopi. Technically, the formal plural would be octopodes (pronounced ock-toe-poe-dees) but octopuses will do.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it’s like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It’s not happenstance. It means that I’m the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that’s why it’s different now.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“Hadn’t Gandhi-ji said, An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“Johnny Otis died in 2012, aged ninety, having achieved more than most of us could hope to if we lived five times that long, and having helped many more people to make the most of their talents. He died three days before the discovery of whom he was most proud, Etta James, and she overshadowed him in the obituaries, as he would have wanted.”
― Andrew Hickey, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Volume 2: From the Million Dollar Quartet to the Fab Four