“Im not afraid of death, just of dying.”

“Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.”

“Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.”

“Ive never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.”

“If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.”

“There is a journey that all must take regardless of its direction or apparent meaning. An artist plucks out their heart, holds it forth, and be it through agony or ecstasy, is prepared to be measur...”

“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment a clarification of our souls until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.”

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”

“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”