Keith Knerr

“A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals