"Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium."

“The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.”

“I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.”

“When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.”

“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.”

“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.”

Source : "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

“The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God”

“Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.”

“Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster