"That's not to say Gilbert is just unlucky. Oh, he is, but it goes beyond that. Gilbert manages always to be Old Man 's sorriest victim and, at the same time, his most indispensable collaborator. Fate and fate alone may place the banana peel in his path, but it is Gilbert who will every time make certain that at the moment of rendezvous he's carrying a tray laden with Baccarat crystal which he has, in order to impress a date, borrowed without the knowledge or permission of its owner, and which he'd been hoping to return in secret."

"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination."

"Incompetence at this scale, when they're doing things at this scale, is really dangerous, you could end up …"

"Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from."

"…My fiction is also influenced by women intellectuals such as Melani Budianta and Julia Suryakusuma. I love…"

"I know I speak for everyone in these islands, all parties, all our people, when I say to Mr. Smith tonight:…"

"At the end of the war, most people wanted to stop. I didn't. Because here was more knowledge. And in the co…"