Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.