You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.