"I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life."

“Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals”

Source : Sir John Vanbrugh (1759). “The life of Sir J. Vanbrugh The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend”, p.103

“The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.”

“you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

Source : A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

“If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.”

“A photograph has edges the world does not.”

Source : Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

“A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.”

“Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.”

“We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.”