"Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned."

“Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tatiana de Rosnay from Jul 16, 2012

“Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said. "A what?" Lucia asked. "Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with a handful of colorful straws, one of which she threw at Max like a dart. He caught it in midair. That impressed Haddie and she tossed him another, just to see if he could do it again. He fumbled that one.”

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.128, Macmillan

“I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.”

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”

“If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”

“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”

“Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.”