I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.