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“Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.†Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.”
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“Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.”
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“Poems are difficult to silence.”
Source : "The Answer Man" by Stephen Greenblatt, www.newyorker.com. August 8, 2011. 
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“In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.”
Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”
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“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”
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“Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.”
Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
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“Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.”
