...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.

Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

You can't stop a reform in the middle. You do it completely and pretty fast, or you don't do it.