"Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,"

“Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.”

“Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.509, Ballantine Books

“Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.”

“The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.”

“The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.”

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr

“Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?”

“All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,”

Source : Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey