"I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me."

“My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.”

“Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.”

“The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.”

“The Innkeepers were two nerds in a dead-end job and then they try to get involved and they get in over their heads, and how does it affect them? That, to me, just seems like what happens to people.”

“They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.”

“A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.133, Open Road Media

“These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source - means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.”

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”