The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.