鈥淵ou are not a cannibal if you eat art.鈥�
Marco Evaristti, who served his friends meatballs cooked in fat extracted from his own body by liposuction (The Australian, Sydney, 17 January)
鈥淚 think the girl is not like a girl who has been living in the jungle for a very long time. I don鈥檛 believe that. Her legs and arms are very normal.鈥�
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Kim Savun, the village doctor in Phum Un, Cambodia, on the so-called 鈥渉alf-girl, half animal鈥� claimed by some to have spent years living wild in the jungle (The Daily Telegraph, London, 22 January)
鈥淲e鈥檙e battling against the American dream.鈥�
John Williams, owner of San Francisco-based FlexCar, on the trend among thousands of people in the San Francisco Bay area who are refusing to own a car, choosing instead to share cars that can be picked up and dropped off at convenient locations in the region (San Francisco Chronicle, 22 January)
鈥淚 would say that would test anyone鈥檚 resolve, being a fish lunch.鈥�
Dennis Luobikis, friend of diver Eric Nerhus, who survived being half-swallowed, head first, by a 3-metre white pointer shark (The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January)
鈥淵ou look at what happened after the atomic bombs at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. You find again a long delay, nothing for 10 years.鈥�
Physicist Lawrie Challis on how the effects of radiation often take years to show. Challis, who chairs the UK鈥檚 Mobile Telecommunications Health Research programme, is calling for a long-term study, following 200,000 volunteers, into the possible link between cellphone use and brain cancer (The Times, London, 20 January)