No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

Is not living at all not better than living badly?

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.