"The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace."

“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

“It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.”

“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”

Source : "Man of Fetters" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2008.

“It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.”

“It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.”

“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.”

“Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.”