“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“A hurt body and mind arent just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my bod...”

“Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.”

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”

“Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil...”

“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”