Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

Without shame, without conscience.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

A modern school where football is taught.

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.