“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”

“Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding.~Sosuke Aizen”

“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”

“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.”

“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did a diabolical thing because he loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood.”

“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”