“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.”

“A GIRL WAS BORN FROM DARKNESS,AND SHONE JUST LIKE THE SUN.SHE ROSE TO FOOL THE HEARTLESS,BUT GAVE HER LOVE TO NONE.SO THIS GIRL DID DIED IN GLORY,ON THE FIELD WHERE SHE WAS SLAIN,AND SHE'LL NEVER HEAR HER STORYAND WE'LL NEVER KNOW HER NAME.”

“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.”

“Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.”

“I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.”

“Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.”