"We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is."

“Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.”

Source : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

“I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.”

Source : Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

“I'm an old-fashioned guy.”

“With digital, you can shoot longer, take more risks.”

“Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.”

“Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?”

“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.”

“How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.”

Source : William H. Gass (2012). “World Within The Word”, p.264, Knopf