"The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself."

“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”

“Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!”

“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.”

“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”

“The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.”

Source : Ron Carlson (2007). “Ron Carlson Writes a Story”, Graywolf Press

“Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.”

Source : Luce Irigaray, Stephen Pluhácek (2003). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.66, Columbia University Press

“People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”

“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”