"Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [...] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime."

“That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow." "This...isn't...the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth. Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?" "Immeasurably." "Good. Give me ten.”

“Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2017). “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”, p.50, Imprint

“On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

“that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

“I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”

“We can make America what America must become.”

“The end of the world will be legal.”

“For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.”

Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.293, BOA Editions, Ltd.