"There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences."

“When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.”

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

“I love to work out and do cardio and have a healthy, active lifestyle, but I also am not going to, like, freak out over food.”

“Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.6, Open Road Media

“there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.”

Source : Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women”

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

Source : Reader's Digest, 1987.

“Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

Source : "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.