"I’m just not interested.” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes.” … “Then how are you not interested."

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”

“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

“Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.”

“Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.”

“An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'”

“Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.”

Source : Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”