Dijananas

“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

“What vanishes when everything vanishes: not only everything, but the memory of everything. Not only can everything no longer remember itself, no longer remember how it was when it still was everything, before it became nothing, but there is nobody else to remember either, and so everything not only ceases to exist but becomes a thing that never was; it is as if everything that was, was not, and moreover there is nobody left to tell the story, not the whole grand story of everything, not even the last sad story of how everything became nothing, because there is no storyteller, no hand to write or eye to read, so that the book of how everything became nothing cannot be written, just as we cannot write the stories of our own deaths, which is our tragedy, to be stories whose endings can never be known, not ever to ourselves, because we are no longer there to know them.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Do not make the mistake", it said, speaking perfect English, "of equating size with power. Or you might find a cricket squashing you under its thumb.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Are you alcoholic?" it read. "We can help. Call this number for liquor home delivery.”
― Salman Rushdie