“To become a vampire, you must be bitten by one. To become a ninja, you first have to allow yourself to be one.”

“If all it took to become vampire was to be bitten by one, then the world would have been overrun with vampires millennia ago.”

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”