“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”

“If you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you well had studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.”

“We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within”

“I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”

“Mithorden:I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”

“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.”

“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.”