Bazil Quotes & Sayings

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people. — Stephen Colbert

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about. — Regina Doman

If she smells good she is your perfect date — Bazil Taha Ahmed

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl

When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing. — Matthew Pearl

He gives very questioning sermons, Bazil. Sometimes I wonder if he's entirely stable, or then again, if he might be simply ... intelligent. — Louise Erdrich