"My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered."

-- Federico Garcia Lorca

“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon
“Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.”
“After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.”
“Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.”
“Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.”
“In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it.”
“When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.”
“No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.”

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