“You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.”

“Well, at least we know they can be killed. It always pisses me off when the monster won't die.”

“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.”

“It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.”

“Apart from Love, Wisdom ceases to be Wisdom.”

“Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight.”

“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”