"In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place."

“The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.”

“Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.”

“We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.”

“Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.”

“Revenge proves it's own executioner.”

“I consider myself an independent filmmaker.”

“The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."”

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.”

Source : "Objectified" by Joe Winkler, www.guernicamag.com. October 22, 2013.