"I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all."

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

“I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.”

Source : "Fourth of July Oration" by Artemas Ward,

“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

“The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.”

“Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.”

Source : "Here's The Sad Truth About The 'Best Job Growth Since 2006'". www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

“What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.”

“Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my greatest passion, as a reader, has always been nonfiction, with its vast, often underestimated imaginative and formal possibilities and its aura of the real. I find that combination seductive.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

“Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.”