No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value.

People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation.

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

I lead a very boring life.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.