"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”

Source : David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

“I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.”

“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

“I always want to give the victim a voice.”

“Science is the future of mankind.”

Source : "Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications". Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, September 15, 2008.

“Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”

“All I know is I've tried my best.”