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“Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.”
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“Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.”
Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003. 
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“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”
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“When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.”
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“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
Source : "Cloud Atlas". "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 528. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.
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“No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.”
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“In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.”
Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black
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“We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.”
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“He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.”
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“Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.”
