
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
" Kids? Just say no: You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral", Aeon (2017)
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball--or go extinct.”
[Elon Musk, http://www.esquire.com/features/75-most-influential/elon-musk-1008, Esquire, 1 October 2008, 29 November 2012]
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.17
“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
Dunn, Adam. " In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when http://web.archive.org/web/20010625162920/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/" cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/ on 2001-06-25).
Interviews
Context: More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”
Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Source: The Quiet American (1955)