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“I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.”
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“Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.”
Source : "Saddam: U.S. 'believes it should control the world'" by James Martone, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2002. 
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“memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will ...”
Source : Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
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“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.”
Source : "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.
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“Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.”
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“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”
Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.”
