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“Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!”
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“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
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“By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.”
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“The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.”
Source : FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Nov 27, 2011 
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“Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.”
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“I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.”
Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.
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“Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.”
Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press
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“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.190, Oxford University Press
