Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.