Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.
Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.
A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.
What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.