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

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.