How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.