"Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it."

“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

“I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ted Toadvine (2007). “The Merleau-Ponty Reader”, p.174, Northwestern University Press

“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

“I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.”

“The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.”

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”

“The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.”

Source : "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

“The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.”