"It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending."

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”

“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”

“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.”

“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

“Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.”

Source : "Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief". Book by Harry Lloyd Hopkins, p. 184, 1936.

“In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.”

“If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .”

Source : Song: Hazey Jane II, Album: Bryter Layter

“The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.”

Source : "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.