The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.