Augustine Kriegel

“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a silvery-white lyre-shaped pattern; the abdomen is banded with silvery-white stripes and the six-jointed legs are striped alternately with black and pure white. Among mosquitoes Stegomyia is the height of elegance.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

“Therefore “yoga is skill in action,” because this kind of detachment is required if one is to act in freedom, rather than merely react to events compelled by conditioning.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“He told me to call him Zorrillo, which means little fox in Spanish.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow