Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Milan Kundera

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rumi

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

Proverb

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

John Berger

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Steven Wright

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

William Glasser

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Edgar R. Fiedler