Richard

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott