"My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem."

“The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.”

“I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.”

“But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.”

Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

“Title IX is huge for sports but also its helped move our nation to a place where we can accept women in the workforce as well. Its opened up a lot of jobs for women. We had a female run for president in Hillary Clinton.”

“I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.”

“Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!”

“To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1961). “The Carthaginian Rose”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

“What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?”

Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.6, Verso