“You have to taste a culture to understand it.”

“Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.”

“Because cultural difference has long been conceived as a redemptive solution to the ambivalence of a Western culture established in the destruction of its own traditions, the appropriation of other aesthetic and spiritual modes is ultimately self-referential. This means that any attempt to perceive another culture based on the commodification and consumption of difference will fail. Understanding never really was the point.”

“You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.”

“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”

“You are only willing to suffer the cost of your dream when you understand the value of your dream.”

“You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.”