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“Rarely can they claim to be simply a mirror of events. Like eyewitness reports, images deliver an interpretation of an event from a specific perspective: subjective, sometimes partisan, sometimes manipulative. Anyone who believes a photograph captures "reality" is naïve. Why a picture was taken, who distributed it, what their intention was - these questions must be asked again and again. Photographs can only speak to us only after we have mistrusted and challenged them.”
― Peter Stepan, Photos that Changed the World

“I am not overly encumbered by principle, as you know,” Zelikman continued. “I am a gentlemen of the road, an apostate from the faith of my fathers, a renegade, a brigand, a hired blade, a thief, but on this one small principle of economy, damn you, and damn that troublemaking little stripling, and damn every one of those men out there, living men, in full possession, for the most part, of all their limbs and humors, I have to hold firm: if we can only save them one man at a time, then by God we must only kill them one man at a time.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

“Heads, you win. Tails, he loses.”
― Paul Stewart, Stormchaser

“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.”
― Tillie Olsen, Silences