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

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.