"No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home."

“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”

“Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.226

“If I fail, you will never hear of me again.”

Source : Eadweard Muybridge (1979). “Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion”, Courier Dover Publications

“The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy”

“This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.”

“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.”

“My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.”

Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

“As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.”