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“For someone who hated being interviewed, Borges was a prolific and garrulous interviewee (although it was perhaps ‘Borges’ who handled that side of things). And yet, to point this out is to risk missing the substance of what he is saying here, which is not simply that he feels himself at odds with his own public persona but that he feels himself profoundly at odds with how little he is at odds with it. (Such paradoxes are an occupational hazard in any encounter with Borges.)”

“I wouldn’t say I’m dropping out any second, but I would say it’s probably not too far away. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realise that you’ve said written words more than you’ve had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being.”

Stumbling blindly and shouting for help, he found his way to a kiosk where a security guard came to his aid. “I told him to call an ambulance and call Masha down from our apartment,” he says. “I had this feeling that I was on the verge of leaving life, and I wanted to do it in the arms of my wife.”

“The biggest misconception about being an animator is that it’s all a big party, that we just sit around and drink beer and smoke weed all day.”

“Years before he became Pope Francis, Buenos Aires archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio called Ferrari a blasphemer for displaying statues of the Virgin Mary in a blender, little saints in baby bottles, and Christ figures in a toaster.”

“Ms. Ray was often the only woman in the band in a career that spanned seven decades and multiple instruments and genres, from calypso to choral works.”

“It has been a half-century since her suicide, an anniversary marked by the publication this year of several books. ‘The blood jet is poetry,’ she wrote, ‘There is no stopping it’ – lines from ‘Kindness’ that capture the implacability of her verse. And there has been no stopping the Plath polemics these past 50 years.”

“The thing about Darren is, he is a thinker but he is a doer in a way that there aren’t enough of in the foundation world. He gets things done.”

“Author Jane Austen is to feature on the next £10 note, the Bank of England says, … replacing Charles Darwin, probably in 2017.”

Fed up with the city’s four or more failed attempts to set up a museum or memorial in her honour, the singer said, “Saskatoon has always been an extremely bigoted community. It’s like the deep south … I feel that it’s very isolated, very unworldly, and doesn’t grasp the idea of honour … People don’t get me there. They don’t get my ideas. They just look at me like I’m famous.”