"I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story."

“Life involves other people and it is a compromise.”

“When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.”

“The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we can speak with clarity about what a divine being can or cannot do. The tools of analyzing the natural world are of no use for analyzing the supernatural world. For the latter we need rules of logic, and the supernatural beliefs of the biblical writers are quite defensible in that arena.”

“In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.”

“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.”

Source : Interview in "The Guardian", October 21, 2004.

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”

“In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.”

Source : James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt