I know, but Jesus Kira, even Achilles had a weakness.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.