"Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace."

“The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.”

“I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.”

Source : "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

“I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.”

“It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.”

“To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

“Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'”

“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”

“Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.”