Genius requires an audience.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

All knowledge is worth having