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

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.

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?

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.

Don’t be restricted to your comfort zone alone

Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.