If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, Id done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldnt read it. – Buchi Emecheta
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. – J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987