It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most.

Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

It's a good thing I've got to live with you two or I'd be putting this on YouTube later. And mocking you