When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt
Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.
To think of losing is to lose already.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.