“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. ”

“I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“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.”

“So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those ...”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”