"If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side."

“It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.”

Source : Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.59, Graywolf Press

“I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.”

“Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.”

“You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.”

Source : Inside the Company (1975). Agee has long had that problem.

“Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.”

“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”

“We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.”