Doris Lessing

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.